This video covers the historic last Civil War funeral of Confederate Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, whose remains were recovered ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

The annual gathering traditionally draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of re-enactors from several states helping tell ...

But Claire McCardell was a pioneering outlier. From the 1930s to the 1950s this designer found freedom creating affordable, ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

A trunk filled with reproductions and models of Civil War-era items is giving middle school students here an opportunity to more deeply explore that time period.

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

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Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce ... the main theater of the Civil War, it was a famous sea ...

The fort, which was first a camp, was named after Braxton Bragg, a slave owner and Confederate leader who is widely considered one of the worst generals of the Civil War. Fort Moore was named in honor ...