The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the ...

Armed with a 160-year-old Civil War battlefield map and our trusty metal detectors, we set off to explore forgotten sites of American history. What we uncovered blew us away - relics buried for over a ...

Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights ...

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

President Donald Trump scrambled Navy ship-naming traditions last week with his announcement of a new “Trump-class” battleship, to be called the USS Defiant, featuring nuclear-tipped missiles and ...

This image shows a cyclorama building from 1894 (though it is not the cyclorama that was in Fort Worth). Courtesy Richard Selcer Cycloramas were a form of three-dimensional art hugely popular in the ...

HURRICANE, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A spot you would normally drive by and not give a second thought has a storied past. On March 28, 1863, a battle waged in the town now known as Hurricane. Dr. Phil Hatfield ...

President Donald Trump’s decisive 2024 victory reignited the internal war for ideological supremacy between the Democratic Party’s moderate and progressive wings. Today, perhaps no electoral battle ...

IONIA, Mich. (WLNS) — A newly restored Michigan historical flag carried by Union soldiers in the Civil War is back on display in Ionia County after spending 159 years inside the county courthouse and ...

For 159 years, many who have visited the Ionia County Courthouse may have seen the flag on the wall without giving it a second thought. It’s not just a flag — it’s a story of survival, patriotism and ...

A Louisiana state historic marker at the intersection of Pinhook Road and La Rue France in Lafayette commemorates the battles of Pinhook Bridge and Bayou Vermilion in 1863. The Louisiana state ...

For more than a century, the Ionia County Courthouse has been home to a piece of American Civil War history — a battle flag sewn by local women and carried by men who formed a volunteer Union regiment ...