Camp Nelson started as a Union supply depot in 1863 along the Kentucky River. The military base soon became Kentucky’s ...

Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins made history in 1860 as the first Black American o play at the White House for President James ...

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The shell flew upward through the dark sky over Charleston Harbor and burst ...