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On July 4, 1864 the Thirty-eighth Congress of the United States adjourned amid great tension over what would be the Union’s reconstruction policy for the…

The famous cosmologist will appear on the track "Talkin' Hawkin' " on the upcoming album The Endless River, set for release next month. It's his second inclusion on one of the band's songs.

For over a week Federal cavalry commanded by General Andrew Jackson Smith doggedly pursued Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Confederate cavalry which actively…

On both July 19 and 20, 1864 Northern forces continued to pursue Jubal Early’s retreating Confederates from Washington, D.C. In a series of skirmishes at…

Authorities still don't know how the mask got there, but they said it may signal that at least that one passenger was alive long enough to put it on.

In the Shenandoah Valley, Confederate General Jubal Early on Friday, July 29, 1864 turned the tables on his Federal pursuers by sending his cavalry under…

At Petersburg, on July 30, 1864 Federal forces blasted approximately two hundred yards of Confederate fortifications with men, horses, and cannon hurled…

By August 1864 Mobile, Alabama and Wilmington, North Carolina were the two most important ports in the entire Confederacy still open to commerce willing…

As news spread of Union Admiral David Farragut’s victory at Mobile Bay, Alabama, the main front for the Confederacy remained by mid-August 1864 the…

The passenger, who was taken off a flight after it landed in the Dominican Republic, reportedly coughed and then said: "I have Ebola. You're all screwed."