By Ken Bridges / Special to the Herald Democrat The Civil War era produced many interesting figures in Texas History. Among them was Samuel B. Maxey, a lawyer, Confederate general, and U. S. Senator.

Hidden beneath Michigan’s forests, researchers have uncovered vast ancient farmlands built by ancestral Menominee communities ...

In the latest Texas history column, Ken Bridges looks back on the interesting life of Samuel B. Maxey, who made his own ...

By Gene Printz Throughout European history, England, France and Spain were warring rivals, and often struggled over ...

Come November, Texas voters will decide on 17 proposed amendments to the state constitution. Only lawmakers can place ...

Former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan has appealed his extradition from Australia to the United States. He appeared in ...

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book We Survived the Night, Julian Brave Noisecat takes us inside the negotiations that ...

Israel says it expects all of the living hostages held in the Gaza Strip to be released Monday, while Palestinians on Sunday ...

Israel and Hamas agreed to the "first phase" of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.

Head of South Carolina elections fired after voting machine contract had unexplained $4M overrun Walmart deploys millions of new sensors in retail's first large-scale deployment of IoT tech He was ...