Samuel J. Seymour was just five years old when he sat in the balcony at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 and heard the ...

It’s been almost 40 years since one of the greatest Civil War movies ever first hit theaters, but now the film has finally ...

In recent decades, Gettysburg has come to be understood less as a military encounter than as an emancipatory turning point.

After four bloody years and over 700,000 deaths, the Confederacy surrendered. More than four million enslaved persons were ...

The revision of Donald Trump has taken a mere five years, at least at the revered Smithsonian Institution.

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 ...

At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — All across the Midlands and the rest of America, people are coming together for Thanksgiving. The origin of Thanksgiving goes back hundreds of years in North America. There have ...

Two turkeys headed Tuesday from the posh Willard Hotel to the White House, becoming the latest turkeys to be pardoned by an American president in a tradition that officially dates back to President ...

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the ...

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 ...

Nov. 8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was ...