Dave Drake, a 19th-century Edgefield County resident whose pottery is now on display in museums and private collections ...

The Civil War caused the Carlin family to scatter, with at least two joining the Confederate Army ... County (1730-41), Fairfax County (1742-1800) and the District of Columbia (1800-47).

There are 18 National Parks in Maryland as well as an additional 10 affiliated sites that partner with the National Park ...

Phillip Stone, a Harrisonburg lawyer who has served as president of Bridgewater College and Sweet Briar College, holds an ...

Did you know that Confederate Missouri leaders actually moved to Shreveport and then Marshall, Texas, to establish the ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, Americans have grappled with how the Civil War will be remembered ... the states that comprised the Confederacy, states that became the theater of the ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce ... the main theater of the Civil War, it was a famous sea ...