Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian immigrant in Michigan, disguised herself as “Frank Thompson” to serve in the Union Army’s 2nd ...

Here are our picks for the top things to do this weekend and beyond in Lee County, from festivals and live music to immersive ...

The National Parks Service is inviting the public to commemorate the 165th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War right where it began.On April 1 ...

Greg Vital gathered local partners for an educational visit to an important historic site within the Moccasin Bend National Archeological District. Beginning near the Moccasin Bend Mental Health ...

Anyone who is intrigued by military history (or looking for interesting sites to see on a trip) will want to check out these ...

Eight activists arrested in Minnesota told HuffPost how it feels to be targeted by Donald Trump’s war on dissent — and they ...

At the North-South Skirmish Association's 153rd National Competition, members will compete in live-fire matches with original and reproduction muskets, carbines, revolvers, mortars and cannons.

A small Tennessee town hopes to stop the construction of a facility that has a federal contract to refine depleted uranium into a metallic form the government needs to build nuclear weapons.

The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military ...

As Kevin Johnson undertakes his 201st performance as Jordan Freeman, who died in 1781 at the battle of Fort Griswold.

The thing about Key West is that even its historical landmarks refuse to behave normally, and Fort East Martello might be the ...

The Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers will premiere an extraordinary choral work titled “The Witness: Incidents of the War of the Rebellion.” The work was conceived by the choral group’s artistic ...