The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

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

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

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

During the Civil War, in July 1862 when the Army of the Potomac was in camp, Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield summoned Pvt. Oliver Wilcox Norton, his brigade bugler, to his tent. Butterfield, who ...

Lee and General A.P. Hill heard on the morning of July ... Civil War, before selling it to Daniel and Mary Heintzelman in ...

Brian Pease was in his element as he stood at the front of the Grand Army of the Republic Hall and led a Civil War Roundtable discussion in August. It wasn’t just because his presentation ...

Americans have celebrated Black History Month each February. This week, explore the history of Ripon’s early African-American ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

Woolson would turn 108 on Feb. 11, 1955, and Frances Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kobus, Woolson's son-in-law and daughter, would turn 5 the following week.

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on the fourth of July, also known as ...