Coming to terms with this reality will allow us to strengthen and maximize the full power and potential of our nation—the one dedicated to the proposition of equality.

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 Lincoln County Genealogical Society will host “Civil War Field Medicine” presentation at its monthly meeting on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 11 a.m. at the Toledo Public Library, 173 NW ...

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

This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The ...

Recipes from a time when Southern infrastructure was a long way from being restored, but families had to keep everyone fed.

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

Presidential“greatness” is a difficult thing to define, although many people have tried. One prevailing theory is that it requires a presid ...

By the beginning of the 20th century, the Republican leader had sharply increased tariffs and pursued an expansionist foreign ...