Although no Civil War battles took place in Rhode Island, a hospital in Portsmouth, Rhode Island played a large role in ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff thanks to a gesture of good will from Yankees to the Old South in 1913 ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

The Lincoln County Genealogical Society will host “Civil War Field Medicine” presentation at its monthly meeting on Saturday, ...

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

Presidential“greatness” is a difficult thing to define, although many people have tried. One prevailing theory is that it requires a presid ...

By the beginning of the 20th century, the Republican leader had sharply increased tariffs and pursued an expansionist foreign policy.

Each month, local historian Florine Bell provides information about prominent local individuals or places. Although North ...

The Attorney General of Virginia is a publicly elected executive official in the Virginia state government. The attorney general provides legal advice and representation for all state agencies. The ...

Why do we study history? Some study it as a way to confirm their own political ideologies, something that often happens when ...