Carnegie Mellon University Professor Edda L. Fields-Black on Monday won a 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book “Combee ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once housed ...

What does Cinco de Mayo celebrate? Brush up on its rich history and modern traditions. (And no, it's not Mexico's ...

Black Union soldiers who were part of the United States Colored Cavalry were driving a herd of cattle near Simpsonville, ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

Almost exactly 160 years ago, the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic end. By December 1864, it was ...

A New Orleans wine merchant and Black soldier, E. Arnold Bertonneau led the fight for Black men to have the right to vote.

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month.

A bill that would have removed the tax exempt status to the J.E.B. Stuart Preservation Inc. site in Patrick County was vetoed ...

Even as the Civil War raged on, Union soldiers erected monuments to mark where they fought and where the fallen were buried.

I have been preparing and selling ‘Dr. Taylor’s Celebrated Horse Powders’ for nearly five years,” he wrote in 1878, “and am ...

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.