Join the National Park Service and Raising the Shade from 12:30 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 15, at Booker T. Washington National Monument. A free seminar will take place ...

Little is known about the two sets of skeletal remains uncovered during an excavation in downtown Frederick last week — only ...

Virginia Opera announces its upcoming production of Intelligence, the powerful new opera by composer Jake Heggie and ...

After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor ...

How Did Service in Mexico Influence Later Performance? In recognition of the importance of the Mexican-American War in military education, Prof. Johnson (Lipscomb University) has collected essays on ...

The brief Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was one of the US’s five constitutional wars, that is, it is one of the only five ever declared by Congress. A brief history of the conflict can be reviewed ...

Around 620,000 men died during the Civil War — roughly two percent of the United States' population at the time. After the battle of Cold Harbor in the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was called a ...

Though other Civil War battles, including the Second Battle of Bull Run and Stones River, had high casualty counts, the Battle of Antietam stands out. The Civil War battle in September 1862 lasted ...

Louie Gallo’s work sometimes encircles him much like the Civil War generals he researches tried to do to their enemies more than 150 years ago. “That’s actually what I love about this job: the moments ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday, Nov. 14 to the New York State Bar, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an ...