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

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

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

or with the subject of birth – the American Civil War. Jane’s association with that bloody struggle came via her seventh child, Michael. He had been among the c. 250,000 ethnic Irishmen who ...

In American history, there has never quite been a conflict like the Civil War. Brother against brother, North against South, ...

A documentary special provides an overview of the U.S. military across the centuries, mostly focusing on the American ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans ...

These warriors came to embody Black Civil War service, if not African American patriotism ... such soldiers during the ...

This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of American History Old Glory flag National Museum of American History United States National 34-Star Flag ...

American Civil War soldier Daniel Walterhouse was wounded ... do hands-on projects related to social issues and topics such as history and the environment. Even though Tim Archer was no longer ...

Contributed Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City, center, holds up a Missouri flag flown over the state Capitol alongside ...