The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

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

Join us on an adventure that takes us deep into the heart of history. With our trusty metal detectors in hand, we venture into areas steeped in American Civil War lore. Our journey is filled with ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Coming to terms with this reality will allow us to strengthen and maximize the full power and potential of our nation—the one dedicated to the proposition of equality.

SOMEWHERE TOWARD FREEDOM: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation, by Bennett Parten Commanding an army of some 60,000 men, in late 1864, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh ...

The longer the war the better, if need be so, if it succeeds in abolishing the internal system of American Slavery ... the freedmen of the South every civil and political right with their white ...

Well, it might not have been on water, but it was a port of sorts for pioneers beginning their ventures into the great unknown of the American ... This map of Westport in 1855 appeared in an unknown ...

Well, it might not have been on water, but it was a port of sorts for pioneers beginning their ventures into the great unknown of the American ... The Civil War took a heavy toll on the largely ...

One of the city's most popular landmarks is the Mark Twain House & Museum, where the famous literary artist lived while penning several American ... statues and Civil War cannons along the way ...