Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...
History comes to life as we metal detect the very battlefield where a Civil War cavalry officer met his fate. This site holds ...
Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...
Efforts are underway to include the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home on the Civil War Trails as it expands into southwestern ...
The film discusses the historical context leading to the American Civil War, focusing on the sectional tensions between free ...
Rosencrans and the Union troops were led to the summit by a young man, 22-year-old David Hart, whose father owned the farm ...
In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold ...
One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...
In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and ...