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 ...

Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special envoy arrived in Damascus. Theirs was the first such visit since President ...

The Houthis have already detained UN staffers, as well as individuals associated with the once-open US Embassy in Sanaa, ...

As Myanmar’s civil war heads into a fifth year, anti-junta forces are opening universities and colleges as part of their ...

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice says the Trump administration offered support to help find her son, who ...

And after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment has called for the population counts that determine each state's share of U.S.

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon.