What did the Civil War do to railroading? The changes were rapid, profound, lasting, and formed the real basis of truly ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month.

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

By using surviving artifacts, eyewitness testimony, accurately reproduced uniforms, original firearms and the thorough study ...

Starting with Saturday’s anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the country will look back to its war of independence and ask where its legacy stands today. Just after dawn on the ...

In Glens Falls, people gathered near the Civil War ... of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, considered the first major armed conflicts of the Revolutionary War. “It’s significant because ...

Amid a hail of gunfire, they watched as British soldiers confronted an overmatched group of Lexington Minute Men on Lexington Battle Green ... planned trilogy on the war, called Lexington and ...

LEXINGTON — Gunfire rang out on the grassy common of this quintessential New England town just after dawn Saturday, signaling the start of daylong commemorations of the battles that opened the ...

LEXINGTON, Massachusetts — Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago ...

LEXINGTON, Mass. (WJAR) — 250 years ago, the first shots of the American Revolution rang out in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, signaling a major milestone toward American independence.

During his first campaign, Mr. Trump drew mockery for a plaque at one of his golf courses commemorating a Civil War battle that never happened. For all his appeals to American greatness ...