Thirteen Medal of Honor recipients retraced the route of the Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase on Tuesday, a historic event that led to the awarding of the very first Medals of Honor in 1863.

For little under fourteen years, the Taiping Rebellion waged over China. Seventeen provinces were ravished and the estimated loss of life is between 20 and 25 million. It is the deadliest civil war, ...

If you're looking to take a step back in time, look no further than this Ohio restaurant -- which curiously takes residence in a cave from the 1800s.

Finger Lakes Community College will host an online lecture next week exploring the final chapter of the Civil War, marking 160 years since the Confederacy’s collapse. Historian and author Robert M.

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history.

In select Southern towns, history isn’t confined to textbooks or museum walls. It’s woven into everyday life, ready to be discovered in unexpected ways.

When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter thought up a ruse to make sure it wouldn't be salvaged and used ...

"The Spirit of Freedom Celebration" connects IPS students with historical reenactors demonstrating the crucial role African Americans played in the Civil War.

Catherine Aselford portrays one of the founders of Mount Olivet United Methodist Church (staff photo by Scott McCaffrey) Historical re-enactors brought names from the past to life at the Mount Olivet ...

On Sept. 24, more than 70 people gathered at Jamestown Settlement’s Robins Foundation Theater for “Introducing Jamestown 1862,” a lecture series that unveiled an exciting new piece of Jamestown ...

Twenty-two Black soldiers died in the Simpsonville Massacre, buried in a mass grave, their final resting place unknown.

The Civil War and after, the coal-mining boom and more. This is part two of a series written by Carolyn Krause.