For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

During the American Revolution, Louisiana — which was then under Spanish rule — played a significant role in supporting the ...

It’s nearly Independence Day weekend, so this is a good time to reflect on that futurology paradigm, PPPW, which I’ve previously introduced. My earlier column focused on two apocalyptic wild-card ...

Vancouver’s former Army post provided a training ground for both Union and Confederate officers until the Civil War broke out in April 1861. At the start of the Civil War, some officers resigned and j ...

Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroad ...

Linwood Holton, vanguard of two-party competition in once solidly Democratic Virginia as its first Republican governor of the 20th century and whose progressive views on race and public investment ...

Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

For over two decades, much of southern Arizona was represented in Congress by Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva, a champion of ...

After the Senate parliamentarian advised that a Medicaid provider tax overhaul central to President Donald Trump’s tax cut and spending bill didn't adhere to the chamber’s procedural rules, senators w ...

Lot 62 is a sepia-colored carte de visite of Lincoln, boldly signed by him as “A. Lincoln” and PSA/DNA slabbed and graded ...

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...