The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

The American Civil War, 1862-1865, saw 1,646 soldiers enlist from Sauk County; 285 of those died during that conflict.

She saw Emmanuel lying on the floor with three young girls, aged 11, eight and seven. All four children had been stripped ...

A new exhibit is celebrating a milestone for a historic submarine in Charleston.The Tools and Tides exhibit is in full swing ...

A short walk from the Strand in Liverpool city centre is a commemorative plaque which seems completely out of place in the ...

Half of the soldiers serving at Fort Concho from 1869 to 1885 were African American. The fort will celebrate Buffalo Soldier ...

Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

The al-Jaili refinery sits some 60 kilometers (40 miles) north of Khartoum ... amid violence targeting oil workers in another civil war. South Sudan broke away to become its own country in ...

My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with ...

Gilbert Bates was getting madder by the minute. The 31-year-old farmer was chewing the fat with a neighbor in November 1867.