A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house, one of the nation’s leading purveyors of early American ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... and editor who worked in Washington in the lead up to the Civil War. During his four decades in the nation’s capital, he crossed ...

Historically, the backward flag can be traced back to the Civil War. During the war, troop had flag bearers who would carry ...