During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...

Lynchburg is home to the only museum honoring chaplains from the Civil War on both sides of the conflict. On Saturday, the National Civil War Chaplains Museum celebrated its grand reopening in its ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed after a World War II sailor who received ...

The Stuart family tells a story that during the raid of Union troops on Saltville, Virginia, in December 1864, a soldier of ...

The Thomas Day House, a major regional historic attraction, is now open five days a week for the first time. The restored ...

Jonesborough isn’t just any small town – it’s Tennessee’s oldest town and the storytelling capital of the world! Walking down ...

The Gaza Strip has experienced at least 10 communications outages since the war began in October 2023, according to Palestinian telecom company Paltel.

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

During the war, dozens of local buildings were converted into hospitals, including 19 tobacco warehouses. In Virginia, Lynchburg was second to only Richmond in its number of Confederate hospitals.

When Civil War era reenactors descended upon the Old Lutheran Cemetery in Salisbury for the first annual Fame Fest on May 24, there were outfits ranging from soldier attire all the way up to the ...