Did you know that just decades after the Civil War, a multi-racial political alliance won control of North Carolina? In the ...

A governor, generals and scores of veterans were on hand to see Harriet Tubman posthumously became a one-star, brigadier ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

Many became involved in the Civil War. Musicians, nurses, spies, and vivandières all had their parts to play. Before the war ended, many soldiers also became prisoners of war. Drums and shrill fifes ...

A North Dakota state park will no longer be named after a Civil War-era general who led attacks that killed hundreds of ...