Camp Nelson started as a Union supply depot in 1863 along the Kentucky River. The military base soon became Kentucky’s ...

Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins made history in 1860 as the first Black American o play at the White House for President James ...

The Clotilda entered Alabama waters on July 9, 1860. Captain Foster waited for nightfall before sailing into Mobile Bay to ...

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The shell flew upward through the dark sky over Charleston Harbor and burst ...

On May 3, 1775, the Massachusetts Committee of Safety gave Benedict Arnold permission to capture Fort Ticonderoga. At the ...

In August 1831, Turner led about 60 enslaved men in the deadliest slave revolt in U.S. history. They killed around 55 white ...

Roger Taney was born in 1777 to a wealthy Maryland family that owned slaves. Early in his career, he called slavery a “blot ...

The Cane River flows through northwest Louisiana where Caddo Indians once farmed corn and hunted deer. French explorer Louis ...

About 600 civil rights marchers left Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma on March 7, 1965. They walked peacefully toward ...

About 600 women applied to join the Naval Academy’s Class of 1980. Only 81 made it through the tough screening process. Like ...

If you haven’t hit up New Orleans yet, you’re missing out on a city that’s hotter than a Louisiana summer and more colorful ...

George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan joined the Navy together on January 3, 1942. They refused to serve ...