Hubert McNamara, leaving behind a wife and three children in Ireland, died in the bloody slaughter of Cold Harbor. The ...

For decades, historians have cobbled together clues. But thanks to a newly released set of census records spanning three ...

The wounds of the Civil War remained fresh more than three decades after the end of the divisive conflict, with limited ...

The work of 15 Virginia Tech students is shedding light on the lives 70 Black men from Franklin County who fought for the ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. The next day, newspapers such as The Inquirer re-printed ...

A Quincy University history professor is giving a presentation on his book, with a question and answer session and book ...

This past week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Civil War roundtable in Wheeling. The talk was held at the Ohio County Library in the auditorium on the lower level and there was a good turnout.

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Dominish Miller has a passion for archiving Newberry Township history. Described as the de facto historian ...

The Civil War was raging when the windows were installed during construction of Pottsville’s Female Grammar School in 1863.

The State Legislature has given the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Friends of Vicksburg National Military ...