Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

Ronald Donat’s longtime dream of becoming a police officer was in jeopardy. The 41-year-old struggled to stand after ...

In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

"I have lost this battle because my force was too small. The Government must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result . . . . I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than ...

It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the military equivalent of a $36 trillion national debt. Grant had more men, ...

Grant led the North to victory in the Civil War ... The Union armies had two significant advantages over its adversaries − men and equipment. Early Union generals were too tentative, resulting ...

The U.S. Agency of International Development is expected to be reduced to about 290 workers from the more than 5,000 foreign service officers, civil servants and personal service contractors it ...