Decades before Mahmoud v. Taylor, parents sought to opt their children out from textbooks, sex ed programs and health classes ...

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Hidden in the rolling hills of Northeast Tennessee lies a place where history doesn’t just live in museums – it walks the streets, greets you in shops, and invites you to sit a spell on wrought-iron ...

The organization began in Virginia in 1994 and has since grown to incorporate Civil War sites in Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Arlington Heights history buff Brian Maloney uncovered the stories of nine locals who died in the Civil War. Bricks honoring them were placed in Memorial Park, where the village’s annual ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission, a division of the Tennessee Historical Commission, is responsible for administering grants through the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund.

PARKERSBURG — The next regular meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. March 20 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History, 137 Juliana St., Parkersburg ...

Tennessee will soon debut an online map that brings together more than 1,000 points of interest that detail the role of African-Americans in the Civil War.

Franklin, Tennessee is an adorable small town 21 miles south of Nashville. You’ll find a similar love of country music and lip-smacking Southern restaurants like in the Music City, but with much fewer ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Students and professors at the University of Tennessee uncovered remnants of a Civil War trench in the heart of campus recently. State law requires excavation any time there ...

Tennessee’s contribution to American musical heritage is wide-reaching. In Memphis, the pioneering Sun Studio is now a museum devoted to the rock ’n’ roll acts that once recorded there.