Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 04. Check what happened ...

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

Earle has the distinction of having one of the youngest Black mayors in the country. He's 21-year-old Jaylen Smith, who was ...

Earle has the distinction of having one of the youngest Black mayors in the country. He's 21-year-old Jaylen Smith, who was ...

He volunteered to serve the Union in the Civil War, and was an active part of a Marshall veteran’s group. But for more than ...

They say the older you get, you either become someone who smokes meat or someone who gets into the Civil War. Well, I feel like I'm more of a WWII guy, but I've been known to dabble in America's ...

Saturday was Flag Day and past time to pay tribute to Franklin Hogan and Thomas Blasdel, who in their mid-30s both earned their appropriate tribute during the 1861 to 1865 battles that claimed ... Yes ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest ...

But “1861” is one of the few Civil War histories where Lincoln isn’t the most compelling figure. That title goes to a cast of characters, familiar ones such as abolitionist John Brown and ...

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

The legal and moral weight of that statement is enormous. And it echoes through Maryland’s own history. In 1861, amid the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in Maryland.