The Gettysburg battlefield offers visitors a unique way to connect with history, using its enduring boulders and ...

Military conflict has long defined the history of the world, helping draw borders, advance technologies, and giving rise to ...

Reenactors and presenters brought visitors back to the early 1860s for Century Village Museum’s 41st annual Civil War Living History Weekend. Union and Confederate soldiers encamped and mingled with ...

May 25—"Take that, you hog farmers!" "Die, Yankee!" "Go back to Virginia!" These were just some of the colorful hostilities ...

On Dec. 15, 1864 — 160 years ago today — the Battle of Nashville began. Just weeks after his defeats at Spring Hill and Franklin, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood again tried to take his Army of ...

For many Americans, Memorial Day means backyard cookouts, long weekends, and the unofficial start of summer. But the holiday ...

The American Revolution (1775-83) enabled the 13 English colonies to form a new nation; the American Civil War (1861-65) corrected a major defect in our Constitution (1787). Over 700,000 Americans ...

By the side of the road in a small town in Southern Maryland is an easy-to-miss historical marker. But the story of Camp Stanton is not to be missed.

MANASSAS, Va. (7News) — Across the entire DMV, we are surrounded by history. No matter where you go, it’s easy to find a landmark or battlefield that hosted a consequential moment from America’s past.