With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with key battles fought in places like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South ...

The American Civil War ended with the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia on April 9, 1865. At the Varnum Armory Museum, a band playing Civil War era music played some tunes, and several ...

Bruton Parish Church officials hung a new plaque explaining an existing Civil War-era tablet that honors dead Confederate soldiers from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg. The installation took place ...

He had set out from the original capital at Montgomery, Alabama, soon after Virginia seceded from ... preferring to name Civil War battles for towns instead of watercourses—was a fierce battle ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

Embattled Democrats have new reason to hope. The party has spent the early months of the year soul-searching the causes of a bitter election defeat and fighting internally over how best to ...

Just hours after a federal judge threatened a contempt-of-court investigation over the Trump administration’s deportation flights, the White House sought to freeze the legal debate by reminding ...

A movement for some Illinois counties to join Indiana threatens to resurrect an ominous practice from the 19th century.

In Wisconsin, they easily won a hard-fought battle for a coveted seat on the state Supreme ... and those calling for a “tactical pause” to give Republicans the space to wage their own civil war over ...

In Wisconsin, they easily won a hard-fought battle for a coveted seat on the ... to give Republicans the space to wage their own civil war over the more unpopular elements of Trump’s domestic ...