Hearing about the different diseases that affected soldiers during the Civil War. Learning how women nursed the wounded and sick. As part of the weekend event, Dr. Trevor Steinbach will present the ...

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is looking for volunteers to help decipher and digitize them.

With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

This Op-ed is based on an article published in GEOpolitics, a leading source of analysis on foreign policy issues that relate ...

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The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) has announced the 2025 Mississippi Historic Site Preservation Grant ...

When war called the men of Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati to the frontlines, it was women who kept their communities ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

Roland Oliphant and Venetia Rainey discuss the Gaza ceasefire, how the deal happened and what it means for Israel, Hamas, and the world. Plus: reactions from Ruwaida Amer on the ground in Gaza and ...

Most of these are from the Revolutionary War-era, known for looped and flowing penmanship. “Reading cursive is a superpower,” Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives ...

The Lancaster Cemetery, with grave markers dating back to the American Revolution, has partnered with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War to raise $15,000 for the Reynolds Restoration Project.