Below is an abbreviated history of everyday objects purchased during the Civil War Era. It was shared by Historian James Ayers, and taken from a 1939 Catskill Mountain News.

Today, the unincorporated community of Oakville, with its ancient mounds, is known as a quiet place to walk and listen to the birds, but for several decades between the founding ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

The Lincoln County Genealogical Society will host “Civil War Field Medicine” presentation at its monthly meeting on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 11 a.m. at the Toledo Public Library, 173 NW ...