Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...

The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, known for preserving the Civil War and historic sites, is facing legal action ...

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

The Robbers Roost roster of pirates began river operations a few years after the demise of the McGregor crew of criminals. Historian David Klinski recognized the timing and geography raises the ...

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

And no, Stoner Hill wasn’t named to honor chiefers, hippies, ganjapreneurs, or members of the Marley or Joplin families.

The Williamsburg Battlefield Association wants to unify efforts to save and preserve core elements of Williamsburg’s ...

Veterans of several American wars are buried there, including an 18-year-old who died of wounds suffered at Antietam during the Civil War. The locations of several ... illustrated by overlaying ...

In 1956, Britain and Egypt relinquished their colonial control over Sudan, forming the newly independent Republic of Sudan. After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and ...

(CNN) — Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed genocide over the course of the more than year-long civil war in Sudan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. This is the ...

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Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more ...