Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

How Texas Made the West Wild," Bryan Burrough traces the paths of men who settled scores with pistols and called the Lone ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.

As the housing crisis spreads, Santa Clara County is pioneering a private-public model. It keeps families in their own homes ...

Xhosa Chief Sandile Mgolombane kaNgqika is killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Captain J Lonsdale. A ...

William Tyler Page spent 61 years working as a page and clerk in the U.S. House of Representatives. Over his career, he saw ...

Memorial Day is a time set aside to honor and remember the long line of Americans who served in the country’s armed services, ...

Conn Iggulden is known for turning the lives of legendary figures into gripping, fast-paced epics. From the brutal rise of ...

The divisive issues in the buildup to the Civil War were debated. Education of children had taken place in church schools ...

The beach troubles don't stop there, though. A swarm of Portuguese Man-of-War has been washing ashore on the Outer Banks. Fire crews told CBS affiliate WNCN that man-of-war are blue or purple with ...

SUNSET BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Sunset Beach Fire Department is warning beachgoers of portuguese man-of-war washing up on shore. The fire department says they aren’t jellyfish but colonies of ...

Elisha Wiggins, born about 1790 in North Carolina, was likely emancipated in 1833 in Trigg County — and several years later began buying land in Christian County.