Using metal detectors, we explore ground shaped by railroads and the Civil War, uncovering relics that connect modern ...

From “Yankee Doodle” to iPod playlists, here’s what American troops read and listened to in every war — and how culture ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and ...

When massive freight trains loaded with tanks roll past civilian towns, most people assume it’s unusual. It isn’t. From the first troop trains of the 1830s to World War II’s armored rail fortresses, ...

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

American democracy has been dramatically remade roughly every 60 years: the 1770s, the 1830s, the 1900s, the 1960s. Each time ...

Emma Bliss took photographs of her time living in Columbia for her husband’s military career. She shot Black and White life, ...

Stacker compiled data on the top feature-length films from the past 100 years, crowning a champion for each year using ...

The Union County Museum in Cobden, Illinois, will reopen on Saturday, March 7 at 1 p.m., after being closed for the winter.

Col. John Kean, the great-great-grandfather of Rep. Thomas H. Kean, Jr., was among the founders of the New Jersey Republican ...

The economic deprivation still experienced by Black Americans is the flip side of the privilege enjoyed by slaveowners’ descendants.