At the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, we got the rare chance to fire an original Brooke rifled naval cannon built in 1865. Designed near the end of the Civil War, this massive ...

Empress Miniatures has expanded its English Civil War range with plenty more Scots Covenant troops, spread across some Scots Cavalry, a new cannon and some notable characters from the period. "The ...

The expedition passed through Brookfield, Spencer, Leicester, Worcester, Shrewsbury, Northborough, Marlborough, Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, Weston, Waltham and Watertown. John Adams reported ...

The Krewe of Rex staged its Carnival balls at the Exposition Hall from 1873 to 1906. In 1878, the name was changed to ...

Federal court filings from the case shed new light on a little-known period of Bovino's career as he led Border Patrol ...

A move is afoot to have a historical marker erected in honor of a Pottsville man who was among the first volunteers to serve ...

BERLIN CENTER — Anthony Farinelli, 82, passed away Friday, Jan. 2, 2026, at Burton Health Care Center, under hospice care following complications of pancreatic cancer. Anthony was born Jan. 3, 1944, ...

BERLIN CENTER, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – Anthony Farinelli, 82, passed away on Friday, January 2, 2026, at Burton Health Care Center under hospice care, following complications of pancreatic cancer.

Two Civil War battles occurred at Lafayette’s Pinhook Bridge in 1863, with Confederate forces burning the bridge twice to slow Union advances The Battle of Vermilion Bayou on April 17, 1863 saw ...

About 20 years ago, I received an email from a young man congratulating me on my good fortune in being hate-listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is not pleasant to think back to what was then ...

The National Bank of Manassas, Virginia, opened in 1896. Photographs are courtesy of the author. I recently asked my oftentimes collaborator, Lee Lofthus, if he had a suitable note for the Reader’s ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...