Over the past twenty-eight years of being a living historian I have encountered many events.
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Stephen B. Oates, an award-winning Civil War historian who wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr.,…
On the rainy night of November 27, 1863, General John Hunt Morgan and six of his officers, of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, made a ‘great escape’ …
Before daylight, Sunday morning, Gillem ordered Captain Charles Willcox and Company G (approximately 150 men) of the 13th Tennessee Cavalry to…
June 14, 2021 – Flag Day
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The Virginia mansion where Robert E. Lee once lived that now overlooks Arlington National Cemetery is open to the pub…
On October 19th, Union forces from the 1st Harlan County Battalion (locally known as the Harlan Battalion) attacked Company B of the 10th Kent…
A recent visitor to Grant Cottage asked an interesting question: “What did Grant’s voice sound like?” The question inspired a realization of h…
On April 4, 1865, two days after the Confederate forces had evacuated Richmond, Virginia, President Lincoln entered the former capital of the …
“For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; It is not from works, so that no one can boast.”
The United States flag flies high atop a mast at Fort Macon State Park at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.
On April 4, 1865, two days after the Confederate forces had evacuated Richmond, Virginia, President Lincoln entered the former capital of the …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The bust of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader that had been prominently displayed inside the Tenness…
Each January, Hernando County scrambled to put out the welcome mat for what has been called the largest Civil War reenactment in Florida — the…
The United States flag flies high atop a mast at Fort Macon State Park at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.
The names ring familiar even for those who haven’t studied their history since their school days.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Republican falsely declared in May that an 18th century policy designating a slave as three-fifths of a pe…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee governor’s administration helped fund a contract murder of a key federal witness decades ago whil…
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