Welcome to House of History. As I was researching this video, which is about the oldest kiss in the world, I stumbled upon ...

In searching through family storage, Tim Young found four folded papers. They were dated 1862 and were written to the family ...

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

Vicksburg, Mississippi (CNN) – Near closing time on a recent Fourth of July, Grace Bailey noticed a man approaching along the brick pathway, headed toward the front door of McRaven House in Vicksburg, ...

Ray Marcano is a frequent Columbus Dispatch contributor. On July 23, 1967, authorities in Detroit raided an unlicensed drinking establishment in a predominantly Black neighborhood, infuriating ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Two centuries after it was built, the log cabin of a Civil War spy is being brought back to life in Taylorsville, Kentucky. State Sen. Jimmy Higdon, R-Lebanon, joined ...

A Civil War reenactment is returning to Buckley Homestead near Lowell for the first time in years. The Civil War Roundtable, which regularly hosts lectures on the Civil War at the Crown Point ...

Dr. James I. Robertson spoke to the Civil War Roundtable of the Ozarks on September 20, 1960. The editor of a quarterly publication, Civil War History, and the author of several books, Robertson ...

After we discovered it, Roberta and I always stop at Fox’s Gap. There is the Reno Monument, where the 39-year-old general died. It’s strange and a bit eerie to stand in the spot where someone was shot ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Bill Eddleman's first column about Samuel Randol and his sons during the Civil War was published in the Southeast Missourian on Saturday, Aug. 16. The three Randol men probably spent ...