No one remembers who gave the gift to him. The name of the person has been lost to the ages. But this we know: it was given by a Marylander an…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — City council members in Jacksonville have set a goal to decide by next summer whether to remove a Confederate monume…

It has been said that a good person touches up to seven generations, but a great person touches eternity. In the case of April of the autumn t…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s capital city last month removed the Confederate president’s name from an avenue and renamed it after a lawye…

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia city did not violate the constitutional rights of a Sons of Confederate Veterans group when it banned the Confederate…

It is a tradition passed on from days of knighthood. It is a chivalrous gesture. The ritual was performed among the Knights Templar, Romans, a…

(Harpers Ferry, W.Va.) — One of America’s most scenic and historically significant national parks has grown, thanks to the recent donation of …

BLACKSTONE, Va. (AP) — Civil War history casts a long shadow in Virginia, the birthplace of Confederate generals, scene of their surrender and…

(Washington, D.C.) — After receiving applications from several eager students, the American Battlefield Trust has identified and trained a tal…

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — Four years ago, a deadly white supremacist riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, led pastors in the Tennessee city of Fran…

FRANKLIN, Tenn. – The Battle of Franklin Trust will be offering additional Battlefield Tours to their schedule Tuesday through Saturday at 9 a…

Washington National Cathedral announced Thursday it has chosen contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall, renowned for his wide-ranging works d…

Robert Patterson was the first son of six children. He was born on February 4, 1834, on the old Patterson Plantation just a mile or so south o…

The Gettysburg Foundation will host Fall Family Day at Spangler, a free, one-day event from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, at t…

Riding With the 19th Texas Cavalry in the War West of the

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…

On April 4, 1865, two days after the Confederate forces had evacuated Richmond, Virginia, President Lincoln entered the former capital of the …