In the early morning hours of June 20, 1864, hundreds of Union soldiers arriving through light fog on the James River crept ...

In this 2021 adventure, we raced against time to recover relics from a historic site just before it was covered by a shopping mall. Using Minelab Equinox 800 detectors, we unearthed valuable Civil War ...

Commission has asked Congress to add the county to the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District.

Standing majestically on South Potomac Street, the Maryland Theatre serves as downtown’s crown jewel. This 1915 architectural ...

Tucked away in Washington County near the Pennsylvania border, Hagerstown offers a perfect escape from the high-strung energy of nearby Baltimore and Washington D.C., yet remains easily accessible ...

A ‘murder map’ holds some surprises. The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the ...

Reality will do that to an ideologue. The 13th day The 12-day war offers a lasting lesson in the realities of power and the dangers of delusion that should be absorbed in the capitals of the West.

It embraces the reports of the Secretary of War, of the general-in-chief and of the chiefs of the several staff corps and departments ... 1899-1900. 5 v. --ser. IV. v. 1-3 [serial no. 127-129] ...

School – and the federal government's role in it – has been a topic of debate in the U.S. since the very first Department of Education was created.