Sporting events often draw uncomfortable war analogies, especially in football. But only one rivalry was borne from the ashes of an 11-year feud so reprehensible that it has rightfully earned its ...

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...

The author of the 1904 book “A History of the Town of Keene,” Gen. Simon Goodell Griffin, spent his early life in his birthplace, the small town of Nelson, N.H. Largely self-educated, he became a ...

Civil War buff Ruth McCartan believes some of the best history lessons lie close to home. “You don’t have to go to a battlefield to learn,” the McCandless resident said. McCartan will host a tour Sept ...

From ace fighter pilot to Vietnam War hero to member of Congress and finally federal prisoner, Randy “Duke” Cunningham lived an American dream before it crashed in scandal two decades ago. Cunningham ...

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Be there as Union soldiers drill ahead of battle, or when Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant discuss the terms of surrender, or when President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg ...

CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. — A Virginia military installation's name has been changed to Fort A.P. Hill, honoring three Union soldiers who received the Medal of Honor during the Civil War. The base now ...

This weekend, hundreds of history buffs will strive to faithfully recreate the battles, scenes and personae of America’s Civil War, as the Huntington Beach Historical Society hosts its 32nd annual ...

Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...

IN EARLY 1895, Gen. Simon G. Griffin — a distinguished Civil War veteran, dedicated amateur historian, and long-time resident of Keene — submitted a proposal to the city government. He offered to ...