The Rockland Historical Society celebrated a Civil War general’s birthday earlier this afternoon - and they even presented ...

Russian rebels have sabotaged a railway line, causing the derailment of around twenty train cars.

There was no big fanfare. Only a handful of people gathered to pay their respects. Yet there was something profound about the ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

Many became involved in the Civil War. Musicians, nurses, spies ... or bought the latest edition of the newspaper. Some were ...

Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

President Joseph R. Biden posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Union Army Soldiers Private Philip G. Shadrach and ...

Travers and Evans shared letters between R. Dutton Silsby, who was stationed in a Virginia camp between 1862-63, and his wife ...

Fort Ward, the best preserved of the system of Union forts and batteries built to protect Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, brought that history to life with its annual Civil War Camp Day Sept.

Mark Perkins, a history enthusiast and Kent Civil War Society member, will share details about Buckley’s life and military ...

A historian who has studied the post-Civil War era reminds us that culture wars drive turnout as well as partisanship. And the cure doesn’t always work as intended.