Mitch Colvin, the city mayor, says he isn't “closing the door” on a proposed North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center along Branson Street and overlooking the downtown, but he perhaps ...

The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal ...

In 1836, Fayetteville became the site of a United States arsenal. Prior to the Civil War, the arsenal expanded into a compound of workshops for manufacturing weapons; however, it was during the ...

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.

The date selected for this event was between Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and Nov. 19, which is when President Abraham Lincoln gave ...

Union Army Sgt. Joseph H. White, interred in a now-abandoned cemetery in 1916, will have a permanent headstone placed at his ...

A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion Jared Miller poses as his ancestor Richard Oliver, a ...