How many people traveled the Oregon Trail: That and more facts about history of the route. It’s a common misconception that the Civil War ended when Gen. Robert E Lee surrendered his troops at ...

The cowboy boot as we know it today dates back to the post-Civil War trail driving era in Texas and Kansas. Getty Images/ Universal History Archive From cattle drives to catwalks, the cowboy boot ...

The Appalachian Trail runs across the site ... the early phase of the Battle of South Mountain. “No tour of the Civil War’s eastern battlefields is complete without a visit to South Mountain ...

“That means a lot to people who come here.” The new trail crosses what during the Civil War was Cole Plantation. Generations of Coles — Black, white and Native American — still live in ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...