Reenactors and presenters brought visitors back to the early 1860s for Century Village Museum’s 41st annual Civil War Living History Weekend. Union and Confederate soldiers encamped and mingled with ...

By the side of the road in a small town in Southern Maryland is an easy-to-miss historical marker. But the story of Camp Stanton is not to be missed.

The Camp William Penn Museum near Elkins Park preserves one of the most important but often overlooked chapters of Civil War ...

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.

A pivotal change occurred in 1971 when Congress moved Memorial Day from a fixed May 30 to the last Monday of May, creating a ...

Military conflict has long defined the history of the world, helping draw borders, advance technologies, and giving rise to ...

A new Civil War museum is coming to Vicksburg and attendees at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s “History ...

This is the seventh in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of ...

Dan Orr, a volunteer tour guide at Gettysburg National Military Park, shares the story of his ancestor, Patrick Farrington.

The American Civil War left many lasting scars in the national psyche, which helps to explain why it has repeatedly proved to ...

These were just some of the colorful hostilities exchanged amid musket and cannon fire outside Wilbur, Washington, on Memorial Day. An annual tradition that spans the entire weekend, the Washington ...