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In this episode, we visit the historic Port Gibson Civil War battlefield for the very first time with our Minelab Equinox 800 detectors. Buried beneath the Mississippi soil for over 160 years, these ...
Robert Macfarlane’s meditation on the life and times of great waterways poses many perplexing questions but answers few.
Award-winning Civil War historian William Marvel looks at the seeming revival of Confederate military efforts in the first half of 1864, despite devastating reverses incurred during the previous year, ...
Dr. Vincent Venturini has produced a courageous, well-written, well-documented and well-sourced book on the lifespan of Arabelle Daniel of Jackson.
The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...
On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...
The civil rights movement exploded onto the American political scene during the 1964 Democratic National Convention. In a speech at Ted Mann Concert Hall on Friday, former U.S. vice president and ...