During the summer of 1863, Federal Forces scored major victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, tur...

The near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains b...

Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certain ethnic groups...

Early September 1862... General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac Riv...

History does not simply happen, most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assidu...

The longest field goal in the history of football was kicked in Texas. But did you know it was lo...

Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsvil...

Texas 'a whole other country'-a slogan that promotes tourism as much within the Lone Star State a...

Charles F. Gunther is a Yankee ice peddlar who is trapped in the South at the outbreak of the war...

In ''The Stars Were Big and Bright, Volume I'', Thomas Alexander has created a concise and colorf...

In the fall of 1864 after his triumphant capture of Atlanta, Union Gen. William T. Sherman mobili...

The history of Texas is usually told in terms of its 'giants' such as Sam Houston and Stephen F. ...