who guarded Confederate prisoners at the Rock Island prison during the Civil War, to the big screen. Filmmaker Joy Shannon, 67, described the story of the Union soldiers, many who were former ...

Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s ... where it imprisoned Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. It continued to serve as a military prison until 1933, when the Justice Department ...

In 1945, 7,000 Allied planes dropped more than 12,000 tons of explosives on Germany during a single World War ... prison on San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island was closed. In 1965, more than 300 ...

In 1976, the first section of Washington, D.C.'s Metro subway system opened with more than 4.6 miles of track on the Red Line running from Farragut North to Rhode Island Avenue in the District of ...

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

The film is a direct response to the War on Terror, and in that regard is ... a man who’s urgently trying to bail his cousin out of prison for reasons that soon become clear.

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

A Quad Cities delegation of community leaders met with lawmakers in Washington last week to discuss their concerns about the Arsenal.

William Bronson may have been the first black soldier to fight for the Union in the Civil War. He was born on St. Helena Island. The Outlook The 1,000 men came from Sea Islands around Beaufort and ...

"In the dark years of the civil war, the area was used for the execution of political prisoners, or the relocation of their bodies, as it was very near the prison and was uninhabited at the time ...