Today, our Nation commemorates the Battle of Chippawa—the historic victory in which American forces decisively defeated the British Army on July 5, ...

A look at early Fourth of July celebrations in Humboldt County, 1855-1865, reveals a host of red-white-and-blue American ...

How the simultaneous deaths of two Founding Fathers entrenched the idea that the United States was chosen by God ...

During the American Civil War, medical treatment was fast, bloody, and brutal compared to modern standards. Surgeons worked during a ...

The Declaration of Independence established a principle that ultimately doomed slavery, even if it could not abolish the institution overnight.

From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of ...

The 1st Wisconsin Regiment was made up of militia units from the Lake Michigan coast and was the first unit from the state ...

Sixty years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, we are still fighting the demons of division and racial inequality.

With the assistance of advanced remote sensing technology and the help of a determined local historian, archaeologists believe they’ve discovered the location of two mass graves of Black Union ...

The U.S. Colored Troops were among the first to arrive in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation—yet their story has long been overlooked. Black soldiers fought for their own freedom in the ...

Wounded Civil War soldiers witnessed a mysterious glow that seemed to save their lives. Over a century later, two high school students solved the mystery of “Angel’s Glow.” The answer involved an ...

The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...