William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

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

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The shell flew upward through the dark sky over Charleston Harbor and burst ...

People were able to learn a bit about the Mid-Ohio Valley’s role in the American Civil War Saturday at Muskingum Park in ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

West Virginia Independence Hall. Travis Henline, site manager for West Virginia Independence Hall, talked about the history of the building which started as the Wheeling Custom Ho ...

President Trump’s signature second-term legislative agenda is hitting the courts. His “big, beautiful bill” is a boon for ...

For Northern Virginia, such forgetfulness is a blessing. Locally, the war's characteristics were confusion, cowardice and courage, not in equal measure.

June saw the loss of several influential figures in music, sports, and beyond. Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

The Civil War was the nation’s worst disaster. Too often it has been romanticized in history books and in films, but the dreadful truth was that more than 600,000 people — North and South ...