On December 6, 1861, a special dispatch from Stanford, Kentucky to the Louisville Daily Journal warned that a sizeable Confederate cavalry force had crossed the Cumberland River and threatened ...

From Louisville to Versailles, the French influence still echoes in the names of Kentucky cities and counties today.

The digital dots on the map document pockmarks of racism that spread to every state between the two world wars. VCU's “Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1940” pinpoints where ...

Posey served in various military roles throughout the Revolution. The Indiana Historical Society has his original enlistment ...

The map is based on a hypothetical strike that targets nuclear silo sites in Montana, North Dakota, and Nebraska.

That lawn mower you use to cut your grass has been centuries in the making. Yes, really. The history of the lawn mower is ...

EP doesn't even remember that he has a memory problem. That is something he discovers anew every moment. And since he forgets ...

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him.

Ultimately, the Union was successful and won the Battle of Malvern Hill. Richmond National Battlefield Park offered walking tours Saturday to explain in detail the complicated battle.

Architects in Richmond are working with the community to create a memorial for 22,000 free and enslaved people buried at a forgotten African burial ground beneath an interstate and billboard.

Experience the courage of those at the Battle of Gettysburg with emotional reenactments, educational talks and vivid military ...