Willett Hancock, curator of exhibitions at the Matheson History Museum, whose senior capstone at UF focused on Union Academy, said the school’s success after the Freedmen’s Bureau left, was a sign of ...

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

Gilbert Bates was getting madder by the minute. The 31-year-old farmer was chewing the fat with a neighbor in November 1867.

A short walk from the Strand in Liverpool city centre is a commemorative plaque which seems completely out of place in the ...

One score and 12 years ago, a determined director and thousands of reenactors brought forth an epic film based on an historical novel chronicling the Battle of Gettysburg. Now the New Ulm Film Society ...

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.

The Kankakee Valley Historical Society will share that and other stories of the Northwest Indiana's contribution to the Civil War this weekend. “The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana” will take ...

The appraisal group House put together two years ago has grown to 1,200 members. He has a panel of several veteran appraisers ...

My husband was sick and bedridden – he couldn’t run. A man in uniform pointed his gun at him and shot him in the abdomen,” she says. She turned back one last time to glimpse her husband but ...

Shutterstock These Places Aren’t Just Old Fields with Historical Markers If you grew up in Virginia, you probably had a ...

Once one starts to look for it, blue is everywhere. It’s embedded in modern English language (“true blue,” “I’m feeling so blue,” “black and blue,” etc.), in music (the blues) and in history (from the ...

"We wanted to make sure that for a 10-day tournament, the machinations of the colors would work against each other because we were only going to do one set of uniforms for each nation," said Brian ...