Illinois Army National Guard goes to train in Wisconsin and WMBD tags along ...

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...

A new exhibit honoring a local transgender Civil War veteran from northern Illinois was unveiled at Rockford's Veterans Memorial Hall this week.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been ...

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A grant from the State Historic Records Advisory Board enabled the digitization of two Civil War-era diaries now available ...

Sixth Ave. The talk will cover several aspects of Illinois’ contributions, including generals and regiments, home life during the war, Civil War prisons, political divisions in the state, notable ...

United States Colored Infantry Regiment, the only regiment of black troops formed in Illinois during the Civil War. A facsimile ...

It's the latest blow for civilians in Darfur, who are currently bearing the brunt of the brutal two-year civil war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). El Fasher, the ...