Fort Defiance Civil War Park and Interpretive Center invites the public to experience life in the 1800s during its annual March to the Past event on Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of ... David Farragut. His plan to get past Fort Jackson relied less on brute strength and more on timing, speed and execution.

Fort Ticonderoga marks 250 years since Revolutionary War breakthrough with "No Quarter!" weekend launching start of ...

On September 6, 1781, in one of the Revolutionary War’s most brutal episodes, America’s infamous traitor Benedict Arnold led ...

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...

At its most prepared, Fort Point bristled with weaponry: nine 10-inch and seventeen 8-inch Columbiads, eleven 32-pounder ...

Several other Black soldiers were awarded the medal during or soon after the Civil War for valor, while Carney’s came in 1900. But his actions at Fort Wagner are the earliest by a Black soldier ...

Look past the Spanish fort, ornate Moorish buildings and main ... another essential stop on the Black History Trail.

Today’s column picks up where last Monday’s ended as we look back at the week before the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter. We left off on April 6, 1861, when the first ...