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This year, as America celebrates its 250th anniversary, Arizona is highlighting community-led events. In the first of a two-part series, reenactors recently descended on an abandoned mining town to ...

The new podcast is about a conspiracy that took place in Ohio and several other Midwestern states during the Civil War.

This week marks 161 years since Union and Confederate troops met in The Battle of Fort Myers.It was one of the 10,000 places where the Civil War was fought, to paraphrase the opening narration in Ken ...

More than a decade before he became the country's first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the early days of the American Revolution. The Siege of Boston was his first ...

Local historians say the battles of Connecticut Farms and Springfield were turning points that expelled the British from New ...

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

There was a Civil War battle fought on Staver Field Monday night, January 26. But it wasn’t the North versus the South, it was Lely-Naples. And to the victors the spoils came in the form of the ...

Saturday marks the 19th anniversary of Durant's duel with former Oklahoma State star Mario Boggan, a Jan. 17, 2007, matchup in which Durant and Boggan both dropped 37 points in a three-overtime ...

Kirkwood historian Gregory Wolk has written and spoken much about the hardscrabble career of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. A retired civil trial lawyer, Wolk’s passion is fueled by a love for Missouri ...

IONIA, Mich. (WLNS) — A newly restored Michigan historical flag carried by Union soldiers in the Civil War is back on display in Ionia County after spending 159 years inside the county courthouse and ...