A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...

A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...

The German constitution outlaws the former Nazi swastika and other remnants as “symbols of anti-constitutional organizations.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

If economic inequality increases within a country, the risk of civil war breaking out grows. This is the finding from a study by the Chair of Economic History at the University of Tübingen ...

A memorial cross has been unveiled at a previously unmarked grave of the one of the youngest soldiers killed in combat during the Civil War in a Co Sligo cemetery.

Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is remembered each year during the NAACP National Convention, which opened in ...

The onetime San Antonian is considered a contemporary master of the western novel and was greatly influenced by living in rural Texas.

When County, Illinois, was established formally by law in 1831, the United States was developing a spirit of vigorous expansion. It was the era of the “Common Man,” the time of Jacksonian Democracy.

The Rising Sun Tavern, once owned by George Washington’s brother Charles, recreates the atmosphere of an 18th-century establishment where travelers would gather to eat, drink, and exchange news – ...

Civil War is filled with the terrible mayhem of war brought home to the United States. Brilliantly conceived, it shoots a barrage of ideas straight towards your brain and assaults your senses with ...