In today’s History Seekers adventure, we explore a Civil War battlefield site used by both Union and Confederate soldiers, ...

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York history.

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

The BBC's Katty Kay speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson as America marks 250 years since the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... visited Talbot County as a young woman and heard about a history that her uncle, Bernard Demczuk, who was a George Washington ...

In all, he delivered 16 enslaved persons to freedom. After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina, opened a general store that catered to ...

David Hogg, the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, plans to spend $20 million to oust Democratic incumbents.

The militiamen who stood in defiance on Lexington Green are the first who fired upon the British regulars, but the road to revolution was paved long before gunfire erupted on that cold April morning ...