The former slave known for leading more than 300 people—including her elderly parents—to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad was also a Union spy. Born in Maryland around 1820, Tubman ...

Espionage in the American Civil War was deadly — and for women, capture often meant brutal treatment, imprisonment, or public ...

"I Have no doubt you will see this through" Prime Video has revealed their first official trailer for a series called The Gray House, set during the US Civil War in the 1800s. Based on a true story, ...

In an age of instant accolades and viral valor, heroes are everywhere. Celebrities tearfully describing a difficult breakup on daytime TV are deemed heroic. You knew the word had lost all meaning when ...

Civil War "spy chiefs" -- Intelligence courier systems -- Secret organizations: Northern sympathizers in the South ; Southern sympathizers in the north -- Technology assist in Civil War spying -- ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- One of the most important African American leaders of the late 1800s was born in North Carolina, but his accomplishments and influence vanished from history for 100 years. Abraham ...

Kevin Costner has spent years attached to some of the biggest Western and frontier stories on television, so there’s always a certain level of attention when his name is attached to a new historical ...

Black spies used their invisibility in plain sight to carry out some of the nation’s most important war efforts. When most people think of history’s American spies, they imagine a sleuthy white man, ...

Home at 337 E. Hamburg Street in Baltimore is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It includes a late eighteenth-century flounder house. The Federal Hill home was the former Civil War ...