By Jim Beaugez Under cover of darkness during the early hours of June 7, 1863, an army of 1,500 Confederate troops approached ...

A recent legal decision has dashed the plans of Lee County and South Seas to drastically enlarge the iconic Captiva resort.

Grant's Farm was built by Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who settled on the land in 1855 to farm and raise cattle. In 1903, August A. Busch Sr. bought the land, and ever since it has belonged to ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National Park Service’s many Civil ... General Ulysses S. Grant accepted ...

History is most clearly observed through the rearview mirror. Leaders can more accurately be judged by the impact of their ...

At Antietam and Gettysburg, the Union successfully repelled Confederate invasions of the North. Although the Union had been steadily seizing Confederate territory in the Western Theater since the ...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant chose him to receive the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. Vodrey is a member of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable, American Battlefield Trust and Ohio History Connection.

After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with ...

Submitted by Anna Smith, a Three Rivers history and mystery lover.

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Mao Zedong of China was only partly right when he said that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." He should have added that true national power depends on a strong economy to provide ...

Let’s set aside for a moment the questions of the legality and constitutionality of Trump’s action and ask instead: Where did ...