Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian immigrant in Michigan, disguised herself as “Frank Thompson” to serve in the Union Army’s 2nd ...
Jack Hinson, known as Old Jack, began the Civil War as a wealthy Tennessee planter with no intentions to enlist in the Civil War. That changed in 1862 when Union troops executed his sons and displayed ...
The 1860s were years of strain and resolve for the United States, shaped most of all by the Civil War and the work of putting ...
Discover the rich history of the J. Manley Robbins Trail in Danville, now recognized as America's oldest rail-to-trail.
Annie’s public efforts made the invisible labor of so many women visible on a massive scale during a critical time in Iowa and U.S. history.
McGillin’s was already serving drinks when Lady Liberty was still just a gleam in Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s eye. This is Pennsylvania’s historic watering hole, and it’s been perfecting the art of ...
Communities In 1860, before the Civil War, Winchester’s 48 free blacks lived in fifteen households widely scattered throughout the downtown area. Following Emancipation, newly freed families were ...
Happy birthday, Florida! Sorry we missed the big day March 3 and that we can't light 181 candles for you. Burn bans and drought conditions make that unsafe. Florida became the 27th state to join the ...
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address was truly prophetic—it revealed the spiritual meaning of the Civil War.
That’s McGillin’s Olde Ale House in Philadelphia, and it’s been giving people that exact sensation since Abraham Lincoln was ...
"The Gray House," a limited series now streaming on Prime Video, purports to tell the fact-based story of Elizabeth Van Lew, ...