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A contaminated historic site in Mercer County has been added to the Superfund National Priorities list. The Historic ...
"They should limit the amount of daily visitors." Bystander captures unbelievable encounter between Yellowstone tourists and ...
Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.
A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...
The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...
A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...
Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...
On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.
By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...
Globe Opinion asked readers and community members about their American identity. From pride to fear, here are some of the ...
This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War.
Arguably the most important victory of the revolution was won in autumn 1777, on a farm in upstate New York, by a storekeeper ...