The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...

In the summer, you can read books in a hammock, you can read them by the sea, you can read them on your porch, you can read ...

Tiburcio Vasquez grew up in a middle-class family on a land-grant awarded for his father’s military service, a ranch in the Pajaro Valley, and a Monterey townhouse,” writes ...

"The first formal flower gardens genuinely worthy of the name" in the history of the White House are the Rose Garden and the ...

The Cumberland Mountain Civil War Roundtable will present a special July program at the Palace Theater July 16 at 6 p.m.

Kate Shunney Online comments from a newly-elected but not sworn in member of the Town of Bath council created a stir ...

When he was growing up in Marion, Arthur “Scrapper” Broady knew one of his cousins as Uncle Jim who would share stories he’d ...

In doing so, the president is not only correcting the misdeeds of his predecessors, he is calling for Israel’s democracy and national security to be strengthened.The post Trump sets out ...

News highlights from June 1925 include school graduations, ship accidents, summer picnics, local businesses and community ...

Morgan’s 1,000-mile raid into Indiana and Ohio was a costly mistake for the Confederate Army. His history in Lexington ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...