As with so many other industries in East Cambridge, coffin-making was an example of a necessary activity whose production was ...

In 2025, archaeologists researching the Civil War history of Kentucky found what may be two mass graves near Simpsonville. The sites are thought to hold the remains of over twenty Black Union soldiers ...

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.

Bellefonte Civil War Weekend would not have been possible without its sponsors, The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau, BHCA, Joseph Griffin, American Philatelic Society, Centre County Historical ...

Before the Civil War, embalming was not commonly practiced in the United States. Most Americans handled death and burial at home, relying on refrigeration, ice, or swift burial to delay decomposition.

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when ...

The practice of embalming gained traction in American culture during the Civil War. Soldiers who died at war were embalmed, so as to preserve their bodies for the journey home to their families.

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...

Mitford also notes that embalming became a common practice in America during the Civil War, when morticians needed to preserve bodies during transport back home from battlefields.

Why ‘Civil War’ Is Making Audiences So Uncomfortable Alex Garland's latest feature is difficult to watch because it does not give people clearly defined sides to root for (or against).

Landscapers were blown away when they found a possible Civil War cannonball while working in the yard of a Virginia home. WHSV 3 “And as soon as I saw that I thought ‘oh my God this is a ...