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

Explore the American Civil War's history, ... Surrender at Appomattox (1865): Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the war.

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

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two cemeteries in Cattaraugus County have recently been recognized for their historical significance to the region. A new roadside historical marker from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation has been ...

The reorganized Klan's first leader, or "Grand Wizard," was Nathan Bedford Forrest, who had been a Confederate general during the Civil War. White Southerners from all classes of society joined ...

President Donald Trump says he has finalized a trade agreement with the United Kingdom, first announced in May, that is ...

President Donald Trump has arrived for the G7, or Group of Seven, summit in Canada, a country he’s suggested should be annexed, as he wages a trade war with America’s ...

Cranes and great white egrets appeared within hours of the water levels being raised at Wicken Fen, as the National Trust ...

The Group of Seven comprises Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Germany and Britain. Leaders of each nation ...