The century-old Civil War monument, featuring a Union soldier and engraved names of war veterans, was toppled by a semi-truck ...

A 1943 photo shows the Illinois Terminal Depot in Alton partially submerged during a Mississippi River flood that crested at ...

On Jan. 16, 1991, in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced the start of Operation Desert Storm, an Allied combat operation to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves.

Powerful sound fills the soaring ceilings of the iconic Gothic cathedral, and the sheer ambiance of the numerous ...