Paul Revere set off on horseback toward Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, with the warning that the British were coming.

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

When the azaleas burst into bloom and the Mississippi air turns sweet with magnolia, this river town transforms into the ...

The town wears its history like a comfortable old sweater—proud but not pretentious, elegant but lived-in. Founded in 1716, ...

The Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park is the oldest and largest of America's Civil War parks, encompassing land both north and south of the Tennessee-Georgia border, with more than 600 ...

Actor Kevin Johnson will portray man who was captured by pirates, later became a janitor at Hartford's Trinity College for 50 ...

This week’s Historical Treasure isn’t about a person, place or thing. It’s about a very special time in the history of Terre Haute, the era of the steamboat.

A historic photo captures crowds and steamboats at Alton Landing during the 1903 Mississippi River flood, with railroads ...

In the annals of Revolutionary War soldiers, Massachusetts was full of notable figures. But there were none quite like ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

Two warring factions try to be the first to connect a railroad from the Columbia Gorge to the booming timber town of Bend.

Well, there’s no need to, because the stylish and capable Nissan Frontier midsize truck just won this noteworthy honor, which ...