Camp Nelson started as a Union supply depot in 1863 along the Kentucky River. The military base soon became Kentucky’s ...

Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins made history in 1860 as the first Black American o play at the White House for President James ...

The Clotilda entered Alabama waters on July 9, 1860. Captain Foster waited for nightfall before sailing into Mobile Bay to ...

On May 3, 1775, the Massachusetts Committee of Safety gave Benedict Arnold permission to capture Fort Ticonderoga. At the ...

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The shell flew upward through the dark sky over Charleston Harbor and burst ...