While touring historic Fort Sumter with the National Park Service, we spotted a Civil War artillery projectile still embedded ...

In April 1861, cannons opened fire on Fort Sumter—and the American Civil War began. This is the tense standoff that turned ...

After a year of construction, a life-sized replica of the 1738 fort now welcomes visitors, telling the story of the 1st free Black settlement in what became the U.S.

After the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the Massachusetts militia organized into longer-serving ...