Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

Entering the new year, the federal government sent a new letter to Gov. Bill Lee, reminding his administration that Tennessee ...

Although the Battle of Antietam is a much-studied encounter, Budiansky’s consideration of nine people caught up in the battle and its aftermath is thoughtful and insightful.

Located 16 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the Civil War shipwreck, USS Monitor, is protected and ...

President Joe Biden presented the highest military award for valor to seven U.S. Army soldiers at a ceremony at the White ...

Second, public higher education not only serves those who attend their campuses. College education results in stronger ...

C.C. Andrews’ work led to the creation of the two national forests in Minnesota and a state forest named in his honor.

On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in states rebelling against the Union “are, and ...

I read a novel that made several references to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. This conflict between the Dakota people and the white settlers consumed southwestern Minnesota for six ...

Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. Attempting to stitch together a nation mired in a bloody civil war, ...

The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine has grown very happy with telling its story about the development of ...

Megan Kate Nelson, author of “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the ...