It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: a sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...

Turkish Cypriots celebrated Turkey’s military invasion of Cyprus that cleaved the island nation along ethnic lines 51 years ...

SAYBROOK - In the fall of 1862, a Union soldier, delirious with fever, stumbled into the eastern McLean County community of Saybrook. Recognized by no one, he somehow reached the ...

An Iron Brigade soldier’s legacy lives on in his Civil War diary, preserved and shared by his descendants. Charles H. Walker, who settled in Rio after the war, recorded his nearly four years of ...

The statue of Col. Hans Christian Heg, torn down by protesters at the state Capitol on June 23, honored a Norwegian immigrant from Wisconsin who died fighting for the Union Army in the Civil War. “The ...

Pitman Adams enlisted as a soldier in the Civil War on Feb. 29, 1864, two months after he turned 18. He was the youngest son of John Q. Adams of Port Republic.

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Strange artifact at Civil War battlefield is skin from alligator that attacked a soldier during the battle over Vicksburg, Mississippi, National Park says.

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.

Andersonville Prison, Georgia Captain Henry Wirz thought he was just running another Confederate prison camp. Instead, he became the only Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. His prison at ...

These U.S. national parks and monuments honor the milestones of LGBTQ+ heritage See the country’s past through a distinctly queer lens at these National Park Service-managed destinations.