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

So you are looking for the Best Things to do in Denver? As someone who recently moved to the area, I’ve been exploring within ...

The Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture, housed in the former post office building on Main Street, explores the complex and often painful history of Black Natchez residents from the ...

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

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

A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Although perhaps not the most important post in the Civil War, Holding Charleston by the Bridle gives us some interesting insights into America coast defense engineering and life in a coastal fort ...

Go here for a map of the secure area and what it means for ... a former Revolutionary War soldier. Since then, the mill has been sold and updated numerous times, becoming one of the largest ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...