That same year, Watie raised a force of Native Americans to fight for the Confederacy as North and South went to war. It was the federal government, responsible for robbing Cherokee of their ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

There have been recent debates over marking Confederate history, but Chief Hicks says the Cherokee have always known this land in a different context over thousands of years. I think to some ...

The 16 parks and three parkways Olmsted designed in Louisville are some of his best-preserved works. Here's the early history behind them.