Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

The U.S.-Mexican War, also known as the Mexican-American War and the Mexican War, took place from 1846 to 1848, and was mainly about control of ...

The turbulent years of 1861-1865 were especially rough for the people of Randolph County, North Carolina. Sentiment to stay in the Union was hig...

Although he never achieved the renown of Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee, General Alexander Hays was one of the great military men of the Civi...

Thomas Jefferson is best known as one of the founders of the United States. His chief love, however, was not politics, but farming. His writings...

Telling the story of the Civil War's Mississippi River Campaign through the experiences of leading officers, ordinary soldiers, and civilians, t...

In July 1864, Union General William T. Sherman ordered the arrest and deportation of more than 400 women and children from the villages of Roswe...

Few Civil War events produced more important strategic results for the Union than the taking of Vicksburg and Chattanooga. Along with the Federa...

In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that without cotton, you have no modern industry. Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brough...

John Wilkes Booth's brash personality emerges as his life unfolds in this unique account - from his childhood as the son of one of America's foremo...

By turns irreverent, sympathetic and amusing, America Writes Its History, 1650-1850 adds to the public discourse on national identity as advance...

Five men joined the Catholic Church in the mid-1840s: a soldier, his bishop brother, a priest born a slave and two editors at odds with each other....

In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.A. Castaneda Mercantile establishment in the fledgling mining town of Bisbee in the Arizon...

During an 1865 raid through North Carolina, Major General George Stoneman missed capturing the fleeing Jefferson Davis only by a matter of hours...

Medical student turned professional soldier David S. Stanley offered forty years of service to his country on the western frontier and during th...

The phrase American Revolutionary War Hero usually brings to mind George Washington, John Paul Jones and other famous officers. Heroes, however, e...

Brigadier General Andrew Pickens was a primary force bringing about the end of British control in the Southern colonies. His efforts helped driv...

Once considered the Metropolis of Arizona, Tucson is in many respects a college town with a major military base onto which a retirement communit...

The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia that remained a contested battleground for armies and faction...

During the War Between the States, Davidson County, North Carolina, sent nearly 2,000 men into service with the infantry, cavalry, artillery, na...

In the summer of 1779, British general Sir Henry Clinton launched one last attempt to gain control of the Hudson River, the most strategically i...

At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, the colonies faced the daunting task of creating the first American army, and its requisite ...

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on ve...

From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 18...