While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Baltimore is home to the first Black-owned shipyard in the United States, and its history is on full display in Fells Point.

Guest speaker Chandra Manning, professor of U.S. history at Georgetown University, was featured at Daugherty-Palmer Commons ...

"The years of the Civil War were bleak ones for the churches of Missouri," wrote Duane Myer in "The Heritage of Missouri: A ...

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

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

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

The car exploded beside a lorry carrying mostly female agricultural workers outside Manbij. Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named "transitional" president after leading the overthrow of the Assad regime ...

The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids ...