Black military service, music, education, artistry, entrepreneurship and civil rights will be part of the fifth annual ...

“Historically, I write mostly banjo instrumentals ... The resulting songs examine the Civil War era from a wide range of viewpoints. “Dearest Friend and Only Lover,” for example, has ...

Minstrel-era iconography is everywhere ... Shaun Clarke sits at the computer, showing 3D model of a pre-Civil War banjo, while Marc Fields looks on. (Andrea Shea/WBUR) “You can you can look ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

The Civil War has long since passed, but Mike Anderson is keeping the music and instruments of the era alive ... Among some of the others were a banjo and a “homemade” type of stringed ...

Cabinet card image of Horace Weston (ca. 1880s) posing with his top hat and a fretless instrument, possibly a Stewart Universal Presentation banjo, included in the research files of the Old Town ...

The Kent County Board of Commissioners emphasized the importance of the county's SafeChem drop-off sites on Thursday after someone used it to safely dispose of an active Civil War-era cannonball.

The popular mash bill during the Civil War era contained 77% corn. This grain is what gives bourbon its signature sweetness and smooth finish compared to other whiskeys. As the war raged ...

“It’s pretty telling that those Reconstruction-era laws would apply to this case, and it suggests that we are fighting a lot of the same battles that we were fighting in the Civil War," said ...

But hulking Yedi Kule castle was a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece’s 1946–49 Civil War. Tens of thousands died in the early Cold War-era battles ...

A trove of Civil War-era manuscripts handwritten and illustrated by Newark students and now headed for the Library of Congress might have been lost and forgotten forever had the principal of ...

By Chris Cameron A Civil War-era treasure of more than 700 gold coins was unearthed in a Kentucky cornfield, a find that has at least partly vindicated legends of lost Civil War gold that have ...