Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

Old men cry war, young men die - Part 1When Eric Johnston, who befriended Stalin at the Kremlin in 1944, was asked if he ...

Old men cry war, young men die - Part 1When Eric Johnston, who befriended Stalin at the Kremlin in 1944, was asked if he ...

The Freedom Trail, a collection of historical sites, takes visitors along the journey of emancipation in the state. The New ...

Charles Barger and his assistant automatic rifle gunner, Jesse Funk, received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the ...

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

John Milner may not be in your history books, but his story is one worth telling. This video dives into the life of a ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

Polk County honors Samuel Quinton, a Revolutionary War vet who spent his final years in the area, with a new memorial.

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

And on June 10, 2006, the soldiers were buried with full military honors in the Massachusetts National Cemetery on Cape Cod. It was an authentic re-enactment of a burial from the Civil War period.

This historic survival meal was given to soldiers during the American Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that.