In Red Clay, Charles B. Fancher explores the fraught ties — sometimes intimate but always potentially violent — between ...

Upcoming events in Lake County include an exploration hike of Ferndale Preserve on May 2 on the western shore of Lake Apopka ...

between enslaved people and plantation owners at the close of the Civil War and the dawn of Reconstruction. Inspired by research into his own family history, Fancher delivers a briskly paced ...

ALLEGAN, Mich. — Six local soldiers of the Civil War were honored with gravestones in Allegan on Saturday. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Friends of Allegan’s Oakwood ...

A new memorial plaque at the Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center recognizes approximately 435 Black soldiers ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Historians say that as many as 400 Yedi Kule prisoners were executed during the Civil War. The AP reports that tens of thousands also died in the early Cold War-era battles with assassination ...

Civil war has been raging in Sudan for two years. The conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has seen famine, destruction, and millions driven ...

Here’s our list of the experts and advocates, outside the government, who are playing big roles in Washington’s policy ...

SIMPSONVILLE, KENTUCKY—Live Science reports that archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a forgotten and grim event of the Civil War. On January 25, 1865, a company of Black Union ...

The supposed corpse was a stage prop, but the tears and wails that greeted it were real. The civil war has killed an estimated 6,500 people, a majority of them civilians, and displaced nearly 1 ...