On July 2nd, 1863, a college professor from Maine named Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain found himself holding the far left flank ...

As the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the war approaches Chris Bambery assesses the role that Britain played during the ...

At Vicksburg National Park, a historical interpreter and his camels keep alive the Civil War tale of Douglas, the 43rd ...

Richard Chamberlain, the sandy-haired TV heartthrob who starred on the popular 1960s medical drama “Dr. Kildare” and later was touted as “king of the miniseries” for his leading roles in ratings ...

A Civil War volunteer infantry unit from Wisconsin adopted an eaglet, named it Old Abe and took it into battle.

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

Across New England, a writer traveled down dirt paths and into historic homes to find the forgotten stories of the enslaved ...

The already splendid Chalmette Battlefield memorial at the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park is likely to be better ...

Major Andrew McClary was a Revolutionary War hero who died at Bunker Hill. Discover the history behind the fort.

For the first half of the twentieth century, Sudan was a joint protectorate of Egypt and the United Kingdom, known as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. Egypt and the United Kingdom signed a treaty ...

Arkport's Eunice Young and other Steuben County natives have famously been held as prisoners of war: History column.

One of the bloodiest battles in the Revolutionary War took place on March 15, 1781, just outside Greensboro, North Carolina: ...