A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Washington and is staying at Blair House, the US president’s guest house. Located ...

Historians have backed away from the claim that Ross sewed the first American flag in 1776 at her upholstery shop on Arch ... Dorsey, of Philadelphia’s elite Black society circa 1864.

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

Five American-born men have earned the Victoria ... Reconnoitering from Euryalus on Sept. 5, 1864, Seeley pinpointed a stockade and while wounded by grapeshot, returned to give a full report ...

an American author, died at Alexandria ... of wounds received in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, July 27, 1864. 17. -- BOONE, Rev. WILLIAM J., D.D., Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal ...

By Linda Charlton Friday, February 7 is a big day for the community of Groveland, for that’s when the Oak Tree Union Colored ...

There are 18 National Parks in Maryland as well as an additional 10 affiliated sites that partner with the National Park ...

She became a doctor of medicine at New England Female Medical College in 1864 ... s flag never reached the ground despite ...