Marshall Twitchell had only been in Northwest Louisiana for six months when he met a young woman named Adele Coleman in ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

A Nantucket​ driver has been charged with drunk driving after crashing into a 150-year-old Civil War monument.

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

At White Pillars Restaurant & Lounge, Virginia Mladinich wanted each meal to be an event enjoyed by the community.

NATCHITOCHES, La. -- A former Natchitoches city employee has been arrested for allegedly stealing fuel, the police department said Monday in a news release. Nathan Holmes, 21, was arrested ...