Bullet holes from 250 years ago are still visible today at the House in the Horseshoe State Historic Site. They were left ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

Ulysses S. Grant, while he was not a perfect man, proved to be an effective leader during the Civil War, earning him the nickname, “Unconditional Surrender.” Before all that, however, his skills as a ...

Hidden in the New Mexico desert, the ruins of Fort Craig overlook a battlefield most Americans have never heard of. In 1862, nearly 6,000 soldiers clashed at Valverde Ford in the largest land battle ...