On December 26, 1776, the full might of General George Washington’s Continental Army was revealed along the frozen riverbanks of ...

When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter thought up a ruse to make sure it wouldn't be salvaged and used ...

In the first season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Clarisse La Rue was straightforwardly a foil for the show’s title ...

On Christmas day 1863, as his son recovered from his wounds, Henry penned the poem “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” with ...

False narratives have a way of becoming taken as fact in popular understanding. After years of repetition, these statements ...

Great news came last week to Philadelphia’s dusty, rusting Cramp shipyards on the Delaware River, which built wooden clippers, Civil War ironclads, World War I destroyers. The recently reorganized, ...

The USS Cairo, a Civil War-era “ironclad” gunboat, was raised from the Mississippi River in 1964—but if its wood decay problem goes unaddressed, it may sink again. The warship—which has the ...

Longtime Canton attorney Douglas Savage loves books. "One of the things that attracted me to the legal profession was being surrounded by old books." Legal precedents and opinions reach far back in ...

The American Civil War was a crucible of innovation, a time when desperate need and creative minds collided to forge new technologies that would forever change the landscape of warfare. It’s ...

On a recent March Sunday while that cloudy, cold wind coming off the Rappahannock River was casting a chill over the town of Urbanna, we decided it was a perfect day to visit a museum. We had not been ...

Second Lt. Walter Thorn, who served with Company G of the 116th U.S. Colored Troops, recently was remembered at Henricus Historical Park. The Civil War Sesquicentennial event, held on Jan. 19, aimed ...

Let’s start by clarifying the whole “Merrimack” (alternate spelling “Merrimac,” sans the “k”) vs. “Virginia” nomenclature/semantics. This vessel ...