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Shutterstock Fort Wagner, South Carolina Shaw’s boys from Massachusetts walked into hell at Fort Wagner. These were some of the first Black troops to...
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Shutterstock Fort Wagner, South Carolina Shaw’s boys from Massachusetts walked into hell at Fort Wagner. These were some of the first Black troops to...
Shutterstock Andersonville Prison, Georgia Captain Henry Wirz thought he was just running another Confederate prison camp. Instead, he became the only Civil War soldier...
Shutterstock Andersonville Prison, Georgia Captain Henry Wirz thought he was just running another Confederate prison camp. Instead, he became the only Civil War soldier...
Shutterstock Grand Canyon (Arizona) Before tourists made the Grand Canyon famous, it was just a big mystery that ate explorers for breakfast. Then John...
Flickr/gsz Bannerman Castle, New York Looking at that image, you’d think someone found ruins from the old country and shipped them over stone by...
Wikimedia Commons/Carol M. Highsmith The A.G. Gaston Motel, Birmingham AL The A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham wasn’t just another place to sleep. During the...
Shutterstock The 16th Street Baptist Church, Alabama First Colored Baptist Church formed in Birmingham in 1873, just two years after the city’s founding. The...
Flickr/Quack the Wooley Duck Stones River, Tennessee The winter of 1862 turned deadly in Middle Tennessee when two armies crashed into each other near...
Shutterstock Fort Sumter (Charleston, South Carolina) War doesn’t always start with a bang. Sometimes it starts with a bureaucrat refusing to leave his post....
Shutterstock The USS Cairo, Mississippi They built the USS Cairo to be tough enough to take on Confederate forts along the Mississippi. She had...