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The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) is displaying a unique, historic flag for a limited time in honor of the Fourth of July.
If you haven't paid careful attention to flagpoles in the state, Ohio's banner is not your typical rectangle. Here's why.
Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...
On Saturday, at 1 p.m., Aug. 16 the Honey Springs Battlefield will host a program on “The Cherokee Nation and the Civil War.” ...
During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...
Hickox’s office at the winery looks like a Civil War museum. Guns, artillery shells, bullets and belt buckles line the walls, some with written descriptions from his research.
Soldiers’ belts and belt buckles are on display, as is the book, “Ranger Mosby,” written by historian Virgil Carrington Jones. There’s also Jones’s handwritten journal containing ...
The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants ...
This 2023 photo provided by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation shows staff members from the Colonial Williamsburg museum excavating the remains of Confederate soldiers from the Civil War in ...
The bullet in the soldier’s spine was a Minié ball, a common round of Civil War ammunition. The foot of one amputated leg also contained a Minié ball. Bones in a second severed leg were shattered.
In the United States, the reenactment of historical battles — the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War II — has long been a niche hobby.
In this game, the war in Ukraine has never happened. Instead, it is set in Russia, in a dystopian world where George W. Bush, in his sixth term as president, rallies NATO to invade the country.