A former Union Army officer who came to Northwest Louisiana as a carpetbagger after the Civil War lost both of his arms after a failed assassination attempt in the mid-1870s. Many of his family ...

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

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

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 Kankakee Valley Historical Society will share that and other stories of the Northwest Indiana's contribution to the Civil War this weekend. “The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana” will take ...

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.

At first glance, the photograph of two fighter jets — one parked on the tarmac and other zooming past it in the air — appears ...