While touring historic Fort Sumter with the National Park Service, we spotted a Civil War artillery projectile still embedded in the brick wall—right where it struck over 160 years ago. Join us as we ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has a plethora of state symbols, from the blue bonnet to the longhorn, and this legislative session, one lawmaker is looking to add the cannon to that list. Texas Sen.

The United States National Museum has ... a forty-pound cannon ball fired from Fort Sumter at the beginning of the engagement on April 12, 1861, at the opening of the civil war.

When members of Eugene M. Connor American Legion Post 193 noticed that the Civil War-era cannon in Legion Park was showing signs of disrepair, they decided to use some of the money they received ...

“We thought that folks in East Texas would be interested in seeing and learning a little bit more about the civil rights movement,” said museum manager Olivia Moore. “Normally, you would see ...