A diary entry on his 28th birthday, Feb. 22, 1760, reveals a busy day installing a fence around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon ... led the Union during the Civil War and put an end to slavery.

MOUNT VERNON, Ala. (WTVM) - A decorated war hero and south Alabama native has died at the age of 99. He served on one of the only Black combat units during World War II, was a member of the Buffal ...

A descendant of Confederate Col. Edmund Rucker today denounced demands from Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen that Fort Novosel revert to being named after her distant cousin. “Rucker family ...

The story of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train will be the topic for the Vernon County Historical Society’s first free public program of 2025. Civil War historian and re-enactor Freder ...

TORNADO Uncovers Civil War Battlefield Relic - Metal Detecting Is our latest History Seekers Episode. We travel to South Alabama near the Fort Blakeley Battlefield for an adventure exploring the woods ...

In the years after the Civil War, white politicians in Southern states created multiple holidays to honor Confederate leaders and dead Confederate soldiers. Alabama lawmakers in 1901 named a ...

Without being disrespectful to King, his personal sacrifice, and his legacy, the holiday associated with his birthday should not be called Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but renamed National Civil ...

That was certainly the case for the October 4, 1865, issue. This was a mere six months after the end of the Civil War, at a time when Southern states were still in rough shape overall. Slavery was ...

Technically, all three ways of punctuating Presidents' Day are correct. "Presidents' Day" implies celebrating more than one ...

Nearly a century earlier President Lincoln used his second inaugural to set a tone of reconciliation and reunion as he looked to an end to civil war and rebuilding the nation ... according to the ...