The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...

On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...

WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected ...

This column originally appeared in the June 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine.' By the mid-19th century, Centre County stood ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

Total war against civilians didn't begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay ...

Now that Sherman and his troops had taken Savannah, the March to the Sea was necessarily over. The war was still more than three months from its conclusion, however, and Sherman was restless.

In 1868, he was elected to South Carolina’s House of Representatives, and then to the United States Congress in 1874, where he fought for the rights of Black citizens.

President Donald Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. In South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, a ...

He wasn't popular in the South at the Civil War's end, and in many ways he still isn't. But that didn't keep Gen. William Tecumsah Sherman from returning to Louisiana after scorching a path ...

Sherman’s childhood algebra book from 1829, complete with scribbles, had been bid up to $1,500. A bundle of his military possessions, including a pistol and daggers, had been bid up to $3,500.