Harriet Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard on Monday in recognition ...

He began studying law and was admitted to the state bar in 1860. When Arkansas seceded from the Union and the Civil War erupted, Boles, a Unionist, enlisted in the Union Army, eventually rising to the ...

In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

There is only one precedent in US history of a president coming to power twice with an interval in between, as Donald Trump has just done, becoming the 47th president after serving as the 45th. That ...

A quite similar scenario occurred when a Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, when a handful of Democratic ...

The Civil War not a month old, Mormon elder Jacob Gates returned to ... overland travel conditions in that 275-mile stretch ...

Several Medal of Honor recipients performed their deeds of heroism before they ever settled in Arkansas. This includes two ...

There are several famous neighborhoods and squares in Athens with strange names, whose origins even Athenians are unaware of.

The essence of America has always been the battle over its essence. No one election has ever determined its complete or ...

This Veterans Day, the Maryland National Guard and Governor Wes Moore posthumously commissioned Harriet Tubman as a one-star ...