A Civil War veteran born into slavery in Louisiana is among nine Union soldiers with new grave markers at Greenfield Cemetery ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

So if there were to be a day that symbolized New Jersey’s place in the nation, it might be June 24, the day state officials had previously designated New Jersey Day. Or Dec. 18. Or even July 2, the ...

President Trump’s war with the judiciary escalated Tuesday with the firing of an attorney named by federal judges to replace Alina Habba, the loyalist he tapped as New Jersey’s top federal ...

Want to get away and maybe learn something, too? These NJ day trips offer adventure from a new fossil park to a civil rights ...

Historians have called the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862 one of the Union’s most embarrassing defeats of the Civil War. The Jersey boys from Cape May, valiantly though they ...

Before smartphones and livestreams, parades were something you experienced in person– cheering from the curb, waving flags and snapping photos on film. These community celebrations brought entire ...

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President Donald Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips. The move will likely increase the cost of ...