Below is an abbreviated history of everyday objects purchased during the Civil War Era. It was shared by Historian James Ayers, and taken from a 1939 Catskill Mountain News.

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern identity through tumultuous battles and ...

Fought over three days in March 1865, the Battle of Bentonville in Johnston County, North Carolina, is considered the last ...

For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War ...

Shout! Studios is adding to its Western portfolio with 'Guns of Redemption,' a frontier drama featuring Casper Van Dien, Jeff ...

China has increased civil servant salaries in a move to boost ... This impending salvo in the U.S.-China trade war could further threaten Beijing's already ailing economy and bring China's ...

A force fighting Sudan’s army in a brutal civil war committed massacres and rape that amount to genocide, the Secretary of State said, two decades after a finding of genocide in the same region.

Long-simmering tensions within the Texas GOP are spilling out into the open amid a heated battle for the state House Speaker seat. The fight underscores long-standing friction between the rump ...

GETTYSBURG — A rare memoir of a Civil War veteran from Mooresburg has recently been found and published, offering more details about the successful 53rd Regiment, including the members ...