Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's restored the names of Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, which were named after Confederate ...

Plans to remove "offending" history from National Park Service sites is a bad idea. In fact, it's practically un-American.

Before there was a nation, there was the Army. The United States Army began on June 14, 1775, as the Continental Congress ...

Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, ...

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress called for 10 companies of expert riflemen to be organized and sent to Boston to assist the militia facing ...

A picture can be worth a thousand words. But an image posted Monday across the social media accounts of the Department of ...

Black’s book on Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River raid, launched from Beaufort in June 1863, earned a Pulitzer Prize in ...

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...

Wikimedia Commons/The Illustrated London News Joseph Trammell’s Freedom Papers Joseph Trammell was born enslaved in Virginia ...

In the latest edition of A Look at the Archives, Ashley Large introduces "Rebellion Records," a state mandated log of men serving in the military during the Civil War and "the fates that befell them." ...