On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War hero and former president Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat ...

Michael Boulware Moore, his great-great-grandson and author of the book “ Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom ," joins host Anthony ...

Drawing his title from Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech, independent scholar Hyslop, author of several works on the American West, makes the case that in opening territories to slavery, westward ...

TROY – In full Union Army dress and speaking as if straight from the 19th century, living historian Kenneth J. Serfass ...

The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

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Wikimedia Commons/Middleton, Strobridge & Co., lithographer; Mathews, Alfred Edward, 1831-1874, artist The 47-day Siege of ...

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...

The 18th president's descendant had a storied career in museum curation before turning his attention to an affable vampire.

My granddaughter and I went to Ripley, Ohio, to visit the Rankin house on the hill overlooking the river and Kentucky. John ...