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

The original version of this story was published on March 9, 2025. It’s been updated and republished in conjunction with ...

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 ...

Washington in Wilkes County has long focused on the Civil War. Now, historians want to preserve the site of the 1779 Battle ...

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

The state of Georgia calls to mind some the most iconic notions of the American southeast, like the book and film “Gone With ...

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 ...