On May 18, 1917, the Arkansas National Guard received notification that it would be called into federal service on August 5, ...

Two lawsuits take aim at the high court's 2021 decision that the state's next congressional maps must make the least amount ...

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against ...

Brenda is the Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst for the Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Americans have maintained particular admiration for George Washington, ...

What did Mary Boykin Chesnut say about the Battle in her “diary?” Explain. What did the arrival of Union troops mean for the area’s “enslaved people?” ...

This is the fourth piece of a recurring series where the Tribune explores little known historical gems within Matagorda ...

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The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861. The war ...

Proud of her Southern roots and fervently pro-slavery, Rose O'Neal Greenhow wanted to support the Confederacy in any way she could. And in the early days of the Civil War, she got her chance when ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...