Nicholas Waters, who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War, was originally buried in Tyaskin in 1911. However, his family recently had his remains relocated to ...

Dr. Katherine Lennard, Frockt Family Chair and Associate Professor of History, hopes to build on this understanding to enrich ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series wraps up on Monday, April 21 with a thought-provoking program titled “Statues, ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations.

Bruton Parish Church officials recently hung a new plaque explaining an existing Civil War-era tablet that honors dead ...

It was issued in 1865 to members of the Union army during the US Civil War (National Archives) Another result was the First Geneva Convention in 1864, which was ratified by 57 states and was the ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the ...

My most abiding memory of the World War II Emergency as a child was of barrage balloons! Not that there were all that ... of what was known as the 'Cuban Missile Crises'. I joined the Civil Defence as ...