American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.
Artifacts found Metal detecting for confederate soldier civil war camps (private permission). After filming last week's ...
The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...
Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their FamiliesDuring the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...
But Claire McCardell was a pioneering outlier. From the 1930s to the 1950s this designer found freedom creating affordable, ...
Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.
The Kankakee Valley Historical Society will share that and other stories of the Northwest Indiana's contribution to the Civil War this weekend. “The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana” will take ...
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