In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish in Pennsylvania ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

Are you an undiscovered Sherlock Holmes? Or maybe a Columbo? As Ohio celebrates its contributions to America’s ...

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The shell flew upward through the dark sky over Charleston Harbor and burst ...

During the Civil War, soldiers didn't have the same kind of access to quality rations that troops do today. Back then, they ...

People were able to learn a bit about the Mid-Ohio Valley’s role in the American Civil War Saturday at Muskingum Park in ...

People were able to learn a bit about the Mid-Ohio Valley’s role in the American Civil War Saturday at Muskingum Park in ...

When The Soldier and the State was published in 1957, it instantly became a landmark contribution to the field of political science, especially in the domain of civil-military relations.

Strange artifact at Civil War battlefield is skin from alligator that attacked a soldier during the battle over Vicksburg, Mississippi, National Park says.

When the project launched this spring, the private’s grave became the first documented in the Ohio History Connection’s Revolutionary War Veteran Graves Identification and Recognition Project. “He is ...

Ohio is home to thousands of Revolutionary War veterans. A new effort aims to preserve their gravesites. Despite the fact Ohio did not exist as a state during the Revolutionary War, it’s become the ...