Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...

“Henry Johnson’s legacy is important,” Sheehan ... the U.S. military's highest recognition, in 2015. Years later, Fort Polk, which was named after a Civil War Confederate general, was renamed after ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...

The Army officially restored the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an ...

The switch comes less than two years after the post was redesignated Fort Moore as officials stripped the names of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month ordered the change back to Fort Benning to honor Fred Benning, who was awarded the ...

Today, soldiers are camped beside the mighty monument, barring access. Mingun has been embroiled in the civil war for years now. “The houses of the people have been destroyed in air raids ...

Today’s column picks up where last Monday’s ended as we look back at the week before the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter. We left off on April 6, 1861, when the first ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

This is the second part of last week’s story of Vietnam War veteran Charles Hill, who served more than a year with 1st Cavalry Division during the Tet Offensive. This week, the Herald talks with ...

The tariff wars between the United States and its top three trading partners could hit close to home with a higher than average impact for Henry County. Tariffs are taxes imposed by governments on ...