Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people. (AP Video: Leah Willingham) ...

Nearly 200 years of history in Battle Creek has been put in jeopardy from the recent tornadoes. Oak Hill is one of Michigan's ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

hosts about four Civil War battle re-enactment weekends per year throughout the state, said Howard Struve, colonel of the Union Army who came from Port Orchard, Washington, to lead his troops into ...

On Sunday, May 18, the Newtown Historical Society in conjunction with the C.H. Booth Library presented “Gettysburg — Three ...

A woman has emerged victorious from a lengthy legal battle with Harvard over possession ... that currently hold plundered property,” while civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump hailed the ...

He said flags for Civil War soldiers were important because they served not only as the nation's symbol, but also helped guide soldiers in battle. "It was precious and they defended it to the ...

Poland is set to hold a presidential runoff election on Sunday between two candidates offering starkly different visions for ...

A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a pre-Civil War Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year.

Her stage, film and television work ranged from Shakespeare to "Sully" with Tom Hanks and "French Exit" with Michelle ...

He chose May 30 because it wasn’t the anniversary of any Civil War battle. But tributes to soldiers lost in the Civil War occurred throughout the country in the years before the 1868 observance.

Though it feared civil war between India’s Hindu majority and Muslim minority, Britain faced increasing pressure to grant independence to its colony. After World War II, Parliament decided ...