Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poet Julia Ward Howe wrote the famous lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." This July 4, America will celebrate its ...

After discovering her ancestor Nathan Allen had no grave, local author Linda Culp Holmes finally honored his service.

Poet, philosopher, and suffragist Julia Ward Howe wrote a rallying cry in 1861 that would resonate for more than a century—echoing through the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.

A sculpture of George Washington will be installed in front of the West Washington Street courthouse in downtown Hagerstown.

In April 1876, all of Washington's elite gathered to witness the unveiling of a statue of Abraham Lincoln emancipating enslaved people. The main speaker, Frederick Douglass, himself formerly enslaved ...

July Fourth marks summer's midway point and, of course, America's birthday. In 2026, the U.S. will celebrate 250 years and the party promises to be one for the history books. However you plan to mark ...

The Pea Ridge National Military Park in Arkansas offers reenactments and insights into the pivotal 1862 Civil War battle that shaped the fight for Missouri.

On a forgotten front line, the rebels fight deep in the jungle. The military’s bombs keep falling, as they have for five years now. This is Myanmar’s civil war, fought in the shadows. By Hannah Beech ...

History came to life this weekend at the Honey Springs Battlefield as reenactors, historians and visitors gathered to honor ...

Sam Watkins was a young Confederate private from Tennessee whose vivid memoir of serving in the 1st Tennessee Regiment gives ...

Jonah Kaplan is an award-winning correspondent and investigative journalist who has built a strong reputation for his balanced reporting, thoughtful interviews, and deeply researched coverage of ...

Twenty-three-year-old Sarah Roque had been in the Army for just over four years when a man fatally shot her in the head. Roque wasn’t in a war zone, and the killer wasn’t an enemy combatant. It was ...