LOVE of money, warns Saint Paul in his First Letter to Timothy, “is the root of all evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many ...

After the establishment of the first Grand Army of the Republic (better known as the GAR) post in Effingham County in 1881, ...

STARKVILLE — A new edition of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs has been annotated by some of the nation’s leading Civil War scholars at Mississippi State University—an effort marking 150 years ...

Recently, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (aka Secretary of War Pete Hegseth) announced that the shaving exemption which has been in place for many years is being terminated (“Pentagon mandates ...

Would you stake thousands of lives on a strategy that, by every measure of your training and experience, seems destined for catastrophic failure? In 1863, with the Vicksburg campaign stalled, Maj. Gen ...

In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman advanced on Atlanta as part of Ulysses S. Grant’s grand strategy to break the Confederacy’s will to fight. This video explores how Sherman’s campaign ...

Sophie Mousseau is identified simply as “Arapaho” on one version of the photo and “Dakota” on another. National Anthropological Archives / Smithsonian Institution As a scholar of 19th-century American ...

For Americans, the first half of April should bring to mind a host of events. It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

William Tecumseh Sherman's home once stood in what is now the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood. The Sherman family home at 912 North Garrison Avenue, where they lived off and on until 1886, when William ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was ...