The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...

Street Museum in downtown is housed in one of Shreveport’s oldest buildings that’s historically been associated with various ...

A Shreveport museum is honoring the history of the city’s first bank for freedmen by displaying a special exhibit during ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

According to the Historic Huntsville Foundation, many of Huntsville's builders were Black workers and entrepreneurs who found ...

The Kankakee Valley Historical Society will share that and other stories of the Northwest Indiana's contribution to the Civil War this weekend. “The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana” will take ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...