Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Ivy League professor father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani linked Hitler's Holocaust to Abraham Lincoln during comments at a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society.

When Bill Hanchett died in 2016, his son found a bundle of letters and postcards to family that he had written while in the Army Air Forces during World War II. The letters tell a story of the war ...

Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution ...

In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

Ours isn’t the first time when political opponents are labeled demonic, says scholar and author Michael E. Heyes.

And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the ...

"The solution is not returning to some mythical state of pre-Trump administration American equality, but actually ...