A new Civil War monument will be installed soon on the northeast corner of the Jasper County Courthouse lawn. It will offer the Union perspective on the ...
So, the army began leasing the land from James ... At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, the fort was abandoned by United States troops and replaced by Confederate soldiers. With the ...
Dr. Brian Steel Wills, an award-winning author of American Civil War History, will be presenting "The Logic of Logistics: ...
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted, 20-0, to restore the "Kuwohi" name to a mountain traditionally used by the Cherokee ...
The peak became known as Clingmans Dome following an 1859 survey by geographer Arnold Guyot, who named it for Thomas Lanier ...
The idea of “red states” and “blue states” may feel deeply embedded in the symbolism of US politics, but before 2000 the ...
One of the stranger legends surrounding the controversial Confederate general Stonewall Jackson is the fact that Jackson's ...
In 1823, two boys were born in Munfordville, about 40 miles north of Bowling Green in Hart County. The boys would grow up ...
In 1946 there were still 16 survivors of the Civil War living in Texas, all of whom were more than 100 years old. They lived ...
The origins of voting outside the polling place in the U.S. date back to 1813.
The highest peak in the sprawling Great Smoky Mountains National Park is now called by its Cherokee name 'Kuwohi.' ...