Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

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

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

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

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The statue, by sculptor Gerald Anthony Shippen, will depict the Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs Black Kettle and Left Hand, as ...

The Colorado House and Senate approve a memorial for the Sand Creek Massacre, but representatives of the Southern Cheyenne ...

The reigning Chicago Marathon champion has been getting tips on the course from his brother, Wesley, who won here in 2012.

The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No ...

The Army is restoring the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old corporal who fought in World War I rather than a Confederate general.