A modest home in what is now downtown Lancaster offers a window into the early life of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, a U.S.

STARKVILLE — A new edition of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs has been annotated by some of the nation’s leading Civil War scholars at Mississippi State University—an effort marking 150 years ...

Nov. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1791, Georgetown University, in what is now Washington, D.C., opened as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States. In 1864, Union General ...

For Americans, the first half of April should bring to mind a host of events. It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

“It’s not a celebration of the Civil War, of course, it’s just a commemoration of the history that happened in that house,” Brown said. Named after James Lemon, a former justice of the Georgia ...