Discover West Virginia, the Mountain State, renowned for its stunning landscapes. Explore its vibrant capital, Charleston, ...

In the early morning hours of June 20, 1864, hundreds of Union soldiers arriving through light fog on the James River crept ...

What is known is that Cape Girardeau, under the command of Brigadier General John McNiel, was the southernmost Union-held city in the region. A Confederate Brigadier General named John Marmaduke led ...

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 ...

There’s something undeniably magical about standing on weathered wooden planks that have witnessed the passage of history, and Pennsylvania’s Sachs Covered Bridge delivers that time-traveling ...

Rivalries are the lifeblood of college football. But their history is often inextricably intertwined with the history of our nation.

Join us on a historic tour of Fort Sumter, the site where the American Civil War began. During our visit with the National Park Service, we discovered an artillery projectile still lodged in the brick ...

Author and historian David Mowery will present “Cincinnati in the Civil War: Then and Now” at the next regular meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley at 7 p.m. Thursday ...

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters from the Stibbs family.

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters from the Stibbs family.

Reality will do that to an ideologue. The 13th day The 12-day war offers a lasting lesson in the realities of power and the dangers of delusion that should be absorbed in the capitals of the West.