Charles Walker Raymond’s six-month mission in 1869 resulted in not only in the establishment of America’s newest trading post ...

To fill in the gaps in Nelson Shephard’s biography, Lynch enlisted the help of Steve Kochersperger, a USPS research analyst with a personal stake in the Civil War ... at Fort Sumter in South ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Ahead of four events in Boston, Lexington, and Concord in coming days, Ken Burns talks about his star-studded, 12-hour ...

It is unlikely that armies have fared any better throughout history without proper sanitation and waste management. Consider, ...

In 1607, 104 English settlers picked the worst possible spot to build America’s first permanent colony. The 104 original ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so ...