Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

Growing up, many of us hear about historical events that sound real, so we take them as fact. Yet, in … Continue reading ...

A Visit with Ulysses S. Grant” will be offered twice on President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 17, at noon and 6:30 p.m. at the Union ...

Mackowski also had a 6,000-word article published in Crossfire, a magazine published by the American Civil War Roundtable of the U.K. “Stories from Spotsy” features some odds and ends that Mackowski ...

Having failed at nullification as a means to ignore federal laws, in 1861 South Carolina tried a different approach. They seceded from the United States, and fired artillery at the federal fort in ...

Polk when he ordered General Zachary Taylor to seize disputed territory along the Mexican border with Texas. In the words of ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking to have her office removed as defense counsel in four civil cases pending in U.S. District Court involving inmate abuse allegations. The request ...

The Harlan-Lincoln House Museum https://www.harlanlincoln.org was originally the home of Sen. James Harlan whose daughter ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have voiced support for renaming military bases for Confederate generals. In the years following the Civil War, Fort Bragg, Fort Polk, Fort ...

You won't believe the treasure we found metal detecting! We found MULTIPLE FIND of a LIFETIME relics in this adventure! There ...