Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. The Civil War ...

Eisenhower National Historic Site in Pennsylvania will offer special ranger-guided tours of World War II burial sites in Gettysburg National Cemetery to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day and ...

Representatives from the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir 55th Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit and Gettysburg National Military Park rangers last week marked possible Civil War artifacts in the field behind th ...

Charlie Shelton-Ormond: total they were 1500 reenactors. It was actually mostly split even between Confederate and Union and 1500 is a large number, but that's actually nothing compared to the actual ...

Donald Trump may be overseeing and intensifying a planetary bankruptcy, a kind of decline and fall that hasn’t been part of ...

From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high ...

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The United States is a relatively young country, but there are plenty of historical places in America where you can lear ...

A trip to Gettysburg offers a glimpse into the sacrifices and valor of those who mustered in at Camp Randall and served in ...

The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...

The roughly 6,000-acre Gettysburg National Military Park surrounds the downtown and is a must for history buffs, especially ...