The Civil War helped define America and names like Gettysburg, Antietam, Lincoln, Robert E Lee, and Ulysses S Grant are ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren't from the Revolutionary War. The remains were found while excavators searched around ...

Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull. The team carefully ...

The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S.

On a Veterans Day ceremony held 160 years after they served their country, four Civil War soldiers were finally honored Tuesday at Greenlawn Cemetery in Wyandanch. It was believed to be the first ...

The US Army said Tuesday it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders. “We are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon ...

A rendering of Pennsylvania soldiers voting by artist William Waud was published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 29, 1864. (Library of Congress) “We cannot have free government without elections,” President ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull. The ...

The Salem chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic established the circle to provide an honorable resting place for Union soldiers. Several veterans originally interred nearby at what is now Salem ...