The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter thought up a ruse to make sure it wouldn't be salvaged and used ...

The Blairsville Underground Railroad Museum shares the stories of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond ...

One of the most interesting Prisoners of War taken by the Allied powers was a Korean soldier that served in the German ...

Hundreds of thousands are believed to have been killed since April 2023. LONDON -- Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim Mohammed was one of the last doctors left in El Fasher, a city in Sudan’s beleaguered Darfur ...

The monitoring of federal agents by activists has been at the heart of the opposition to the Trump administration’s raids.

On June 17, 1863, Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was forced to watch his men get slaughtered near the village of Aldie, Virginia. Just hours earlier, his superior officer had placed him under arrest for ...

Trump names his Fed chair nominee and strikes a deal with Senate Democrats ahead of a government shutdown deadline.

Hidden from the usual tourist trail, Plymouth is North Carolina’s best-kept secret. Adventure and history await around every ...

In my previous column, I offered a broad overview of what the U.S. Navy does as well as how it has been doing this over its 250-year history.

While coastal cities see rents skyrocketing into the stratosphere, this historic Mississippi gem maintains a housing market ...

Jackson, Mississippi’s capital, lies just under an hour away, providing access to additional cultural attractions, shopping, and services when desired. Natchez, another historic Mississippi River town ...