In Virgina, Civil War buffs wince when Terry Rensel mentions family connections to the 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, recruited in Erie. "People wince because it was such a tough luck regiment," Rensel ...
The 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, primarily from Erie County, was known as a "tough luck" unit during the Civil War. Terry Rensel, an Erie native, will speak about the regiment's experience at the ...
It began as an ordinary day of metal detecting in an old field. Then the detector beeped, and her small discovery turned into a link to history. She uncovered authentic Civil War artifacts buried deep ...
A book presents an interesting possibility: that America has a culture of defeat regarding racial issues, and therefore is ...
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Iowa is a long way from the major battlefields of the Civil War. But, more than 76,000 Iowans served in the Union army. That was a substantial portion of the state’s population ...
FPS Games EA really wants you to know that Battlefield 6 is a "spiritual successor" to the "pinnacle" of the series, Battlefield 3 and 4: "We wanted to go modern" Battlefield I got to play Battlefield ...
Thirteen Medal of Honor recipients traced the route of the Civil War's Great Locomotive Chase. The Great Locomotive Chase led to the awarding of the very first Medals of Honor in 1863. The group ...
An 1800s Black church is one of the few buildings left in a once-busy Mississippi River port, but flooding and a lack of money leave it with a grim future.
Not long ago, the Hopkins House in Gettysburg - the last remaining Civil War-era log cabin that had been owned by Black citizens - was scheduled for demolition. Instead, thanks to community activists, ...
David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...