Featuring history, heritage and community, the Blue and Gray Reunion is an event that takes place in Philippi every year to ...

Information on the Civil War is well-known, but what about some of the factors that led to its start? This week, we examine some of those issues and how, after years of growing tensions, the nation ...

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...

The United States is a relatively young country, speaking in the grander scope of things. That said, it is a nation that has been shaped and molded by conflict. Whether it is wars of colonialism and ...

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

The echoes of history will once again resonate through the fields of Richmond as the annual Battle of Richmond Civil War Reenactment takes place this weekend. The event, held at the Richmond ...

The 28th annual ‘Battle for Sacramento’ Civil War reenactment is happening this weekend.

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle and national history. One of the boldest examples is The ...

May 25—"Take that, you hog farmers!" "Die, Yankee!" "Go back to Virginia!" These were just some of the colorful hostilities ...