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”, ...

February 2, 2026 by The Hingham Historical Society The Hingham Historical Society invites residents of Hingham and the South ...

Getting past another self-made crisis is Donald Trump's desperate next mission. His next emergency engineered to postpone his reckoning on ...

Barack Obama, who will be sworn in as the nation's 44th -- and first African-American -- president Tuesday. And the obsession is certainly not lost on the president-elect. On January 10, he and his ...

A rumor that Fox News host Jesse Watters said, "If [U.S. President Donald] Trump had been president during the Civil War, we would've won it," circulated online in December 2025. For example, one ...

The Huntington has acquired a rare Civil War-era painting by American master Winslow Homer. “The Sutler’s Tent” was made in 1863 when Homer was traveling with the Union Army as an illustrator for ...

Portrait of American President Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) (painted by George P. Healy, mid-late 1800s), (Photo by Katherine Young/Getty Images) In his 2007 book “Land of Lincoln: Adventures in ...

In just over a year's time, Anthony Mackie will have the chance to shake off the Captain America: Brave New World negativity as he returns in the hotly-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday. Also set to ...

William H. Mumler found a way to cash in on a nation’s grief—until skeptics exposed his images as frauds. William H. Mumler's ghostly portraits were all the rage in 19th-century America. Then he was ...

It happened at SR 28 and Edenton Pleasant Plain Road and prompted a significant response from Goshen Fire & EMS and multiple mutual aid units. Visit Cincy names interim CEO Visit Cincy has launched a ...

Dan Shannon of Anderson Township has created a national contest to find the best poem about America. Poet Thomas Buchanan Read wrote the famous Civil War poem “Sheridan’s Ride” in Cincinnati, first ...