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As we celebrate our nation’s independence, many may be surprised to learn that a Revolutionary War battle took place in ...
When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Peter stops him at the pearly gates.
The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...
Historian Patrick O’Donnell spotted an intriguing roadside marker and then spent six years researching a part of the Civil ...
Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...
115 years ago today, Jack Johnson’s victory over America’s “Great White Hope” caused over 20 people to be killed in riots all ...
On a sunny but crisp afternoon this spring, more visitors than you might think trekked on a weekday to Ball’s Bluff ...
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The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...
I’ve always admired medical wizards who, in dire circumstances like the recent COVID-19 epidemic, somehow come up with ...
The Civil War was the first war in which people at home could absorb battle news before the smoke cleared. Eyewitness accounts by reporters and soldiers were relayed via telegraph to the country's ...
Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroad ...