Happy birthday, Michigan! The Mitten State was granted statehood on Jan. 26, 1837 — 188 years ago today. But many chapters of ...

While men fell to bullets and bombs everywhere, the world’s longest venomous snake ever recorded was also caught in the ...

This also shines a light on the steamboat age in New Orleans. On January 8, 2025, the battle reached its 210th anniversary.

Two-thirds of voters in Darien, Georgia, voted for Donald Trump. The town also elected its first Black sheriff, a Democrat.

Until 10 years ago, there really was no Williamsburg Battlefield, such as those at other Virginia and Maryland locations, where battles between ... Civil War and War of 1812 battlefields.

In 1845, disputes across the southeastern border led to the Mexican-American War. Emerging victorious ... their British colonialists but were rapidly proved wrong. Again, in 1812, the United States ...

The tabs at the top of the map ... battles. It’s a fun way to broaden your historical perspective beyond your own local ...

HAZLET - Nestled in a residential neighborhood, between a group of homes and beneath a couple of centuries-old oak trees, lies a small cemetery where soldiers from the American Revolution, War of 1812 ...

A 1991 survey by Trevor Kirkpatrick concluded 20 people had been interred at the site, including veterans of the War of 1812 Private Garret ... was wounded in the bloody Battle of Antietam a ...

Ukraine’s shadowy special forces have been waging a clandestine war on Russian ground for the past six months (Picture: Special Operations Forces of Ukraine, @SOF_UKR/Metro.co.uk) A Ukrainian ...

The 3.4-acre area contains the heart of what’s left of Fort Decatur, a significant installation built atop Mount Decatur during the War of 1812. The wooden fort is long gone, but stone gun ...