New Jersey soldiers rode with Custer at Little Bighorn. Some died, some survived and others missed one of America's most ...

Washington in Wilkes County has long focused on the Civil War. Now, historians want to preserve the site of the 1779 Battle of Kettle Creek. Where exactly was the battlefield?

After discovering her ancestor Nathan Allen had no grave, local author Linda Culp Holmes finally honored his service.

A rarely seen Texas Capitol vault built in 1936 tells a story of gangsters, state money and an 1865 treasury robbery.

Sam Watkins was a young Confederate private from Tennessee whose vivid memoir of serving in the 1st Tennessee Regiment gives ...

John Pumphrey was still a boy when he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777. After archaeologists discovered his remains, ...

State Historical Society of North Dakota Deputy State Archivist Lindsay Meidinger holds pages of the diary of Mark Kellogg, a ...

When a twelve-year-old asks whether segregation is coming back, you must revisit Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and ...

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This is the hidden reason relic hunters keep finding Civil War bullets scattered across the ground. Soldiers carried them in paper cartridges that were fast to load but easy to destroy. Rain, mud, ...

At least 500 of Connecticut's Revolutionary War soldiers were Black. One of these men was a physician — a rare occupation for enslaved people.

On a forgotten front line, the rebels fight deep in the jungle. The military’s bombs keep falling, as they have for five years now. This is Myanmar’s civil war, fought in the shadows. By Hannah Beech ...