Leon Bibb explores the Civil War memorial in Public Square, where nearly 9,000 Cuyahoga County veterans are honored in stone.

Cole Escola's comedy provides an irreverently anachronistic take on Mary Todd Lincoln and her presidential husband. Read more ...

Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new ...

Although another Thanksgiving has come and gone, it’s not too late to recall what historians tell us about the first Thanksgiving. It happened a little over 400 years ago. It ...

All across America, families, friends, church groups and those who avail themselves to what restaurants are offering, sit ...

Thanksgiving has become a political mess, but it is still a time to give thanks for the fact that we are able to survive in ...

As most of us settle down to celebrate Thanksgiving, we recall the stories we’ve heard since early childhood about the first Thanksgiving taking place in 1621, when the Plymouth colonists ...

America’s Thanksgiving is rooted as much in adversity as it is in prosperity. We often need to be reminded to give thanks in difficult times when the nation is shackled ...

Tomatoes may not be vegetables, but did you know that pumpkins are berries? While this sounds like the sort of factoid your ...

Did you know that the carriage from The Wizard of Oz was once owned by Abraham Lincoln? It was a gift during the Civil War ...

This narrative explores the Battle of Gettysburg as one of history’s defining turning points, tracing the conflict from the strategic movements that preceded it to the brutal, chaotic fighting across ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...