GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about ...

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...

He may be known as the Great Emancipator, but Abraham Lincoln was first and foremost a party leader.

We didn’t expect to uncover something this rare. While searching through history, incredible Civil War swords were discovered ...

Schuylkill County can certainly be proud of coming to the defense of the Union during the Civil War. Two Pottsville militia units, Washington Artillerists and National Light Infantry, were among the ...

For America to be bereft of Lincoln’s leadership in the wake of the civil war, which had effectively ended with Robert E. Lee ...

Historian Allen Guelzo will speak at Lincoln’s 217th birthday banquet Feb. 12 in Springfield. A free symposium follows on Feb ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing ...

Dedicated in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. honors the American president who led the nation during the Civil War that preserved a democratic Union and eradicated slavery. Democracy ...

A portrait of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Prophet Joseph Smith was added to the International Hall of ...

The mid-20th century had a stable political majority and an increasingly powerful presidency — and yet dodged the civil rights issue for decades. That doesn’t exactly light up a clear pathway out of ...