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 ...
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 ...
The story is a big part of Civil War lore. Tim Brookes shares the knowledge whenever he’s asked. You can learn more about ...
The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...
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 ...