The Droop Mountain Battlefield became the first West Virginia State Park and part of the Civil War Discovery Trail, now known as Heritage Sites.

telling them of their family's connections to the farm – and their belief that a Civil War veteran was buried on their ...

There was no big fanfare. Only a handful of people gathered to pay their respects. Yet there was something profound about the ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

You can argue that the phrase implies that America stands above other nations by citing its charitable nature (Americans ...

I like history. I am a nerd. The history of our country hasn’t always been the story of the home of the brave. It’s also the ...

We are both proud veterans who served honorably in conflicts overseas; we are also Jews who strongly support the existence of ...

Sometimes, the enemy was foreign. The British, trying to claw their rebellious colony back, burned the White House in 1814.

President-elect Trump is expected to transform the U.S. military from the Pentagon, with promises to slash spending, thin the ...

Men, even great men, are not built from marble but from flesh and blood.

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...