History professor Greg Jackson is best known for his "History That Doesn't Suck!" podcasts. He will perform his live show at ...

Yet neither did he want his legacy to be the one responsible for starting the American Civil War. Historians still ... That evening, Pickens and Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard notified President Jefferson ...

The U.S. military has a budget of nearly $1.5 trillion and almost 800 facilities across the world, so why are there so many military bases in North Carolina?

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

Beauregard, who had become the Confederacy ... Bull Run—or Manassas, as Southerners call it, preferring to name Civil War battles for towns instead of watercourses—was a fierce battle ...

The city still boasts pre-Civil War homes, and it is the location of ... and his replacement, General P.G.T. Beauregard, planned to launch a surprise attack the morning of April 7.

Nothing hints at a particular time in history for this play to take place, reinforced by Mikayla Reid’s ambiguous costume design that vaguely suggests somewhere between the post-Civil war ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...