Natchez sits high on bluffs overlooking the mighty Mississippi River, offering views that will take your breath away. This historic town has more antebellum homes than any other place in the United ...

Oak trees draped with Spanish moss create natural tunnels over streets where history whispers from every corner. The Windsor Ruins stand nearby – massive columns that once supported a magnificent ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

A cannonball is lodged in a historic Mississippi church, but was it fired by the Civil War gunboat USS Rattler?

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of Iwo Jima — the infamous World War II battle against the Japanese Army — approaches on ...

The unofficial start of the Mississippi River navigation season has begun. The Motor Vessel Neil N. Diehl went through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings on Wednesday, with nine barges. Reaching Hasting ...

The Viking Mississippi River cruise ship tied up on the great ... Mississippi is the site of one of the American Civil War's bloodiest battles. More than 19,000 soldiers lost their lives in ...

I sailed through the swamplands of Louisiana and the bible belt blues of Mississippi on an eight ... who died in the bloody battles of the Civil War, the thousands of homes decimated by hurricanes ...

The Lee County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission is working at getting some military stones for three Civil War veterans laid at rest in Pitman Chapel Cemetery. Freeling Cale died at the age of 21, after ...

a total of $2.3 million was awarded for the preservation of 172 acres of Civil and Revolutionary War battlefields. The other three battlefields are located in Mississippi and Pennsylvania.