The Civil War installation, Fort Lyon, was across the street in 1860. The Ballenger family farmed the land, complete with the honeysuckle-covered ruins of the fort, until 1933.

A War of 1812 mystery has been solved by historians Betsy Doyle, legendary figure of Fort Niagara, took her children on a trek across the state. By BY THOMAS J. PROHASKA, ...

Discover the hidden history of the War of 1812 at the River Raisin Battlefield in Monroe, Michigan—home to America’s only National Park unit dedicated to telling the story of Native nations and their ...

It triggered a trade war. Fifty years later, the lessons from that time were recalled by former U.S. president Ronald Reagan. “Millions of American jobs are tied to imports,” he said during a ...

Stand Up Berkshires, the group that organized the Pittsfield "No Kings" rally on June 14, is auctioning off its tank from ...

Mt. Pleasant was built in the early 1800’s for the happiest of reasons-Daniel Cox Hopper built this brick, one room deep, ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

A new book explores how painters, sculptors and writers, especially women and people of color, used their craft to advocate ...

Missing Nova Scotia boy Dylan Ehler doesn't meet unsolved crime reward program criteria, police say. Truro police and the province’s justice department say they understand that there is still ...