American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

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 ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

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

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

This year’s Battle of Aiken events, set for Feb. 21-23, will include a return engagement of weaponry that was in use by generations after Confederate and Union ... during the war, but the ...

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

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce ... the main theater of the Civil War, it was a famous sea ...

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