“Who would possibly want a name on such a tragic place?” Trump wrote on Wednesday evening ...

HARROGATE, Tenn. (WATE) — When you think of Claiborne County, one of the first things to come to mind is the beautiful scenery, but as you take a closer look around this part of East Tennessee you may ...

History Talks continue at the Schmidt House in Tumwater, with the next one set to be held at noon Thursday, Oct. 1. It is ...

The Brice’s Crossroads Foundation has placed a cannon at the battlefield that straddles the Lee-Prentiss line. The cannon is ...

LSU dean Jonathan Earle’s “He Has the People” examines Lincoln's 1860 campaign, using firsthand journalism to show the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State welcomes Brown University historian Michael Vorenberg as the featured scholar for this year’s Frank and Virginia Williams Lecture on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War ...

New Civil War-era documents for sale tell the story of a Baltimore man accused of being a Confederate spy and his wife’s effort to track down President Abraham Lincoln to clear his name. The 19 ...

A suspected bioterrorism plot during the Civil War will be discussed at the next meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the ...

Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 visit to Gettysburg, where he delivered the Gettysburg Address that marked the end of the Civil War, ...

Memorial Day started with a general from southern Illinois, yet most families zooming down the interstate never learn that. Illinois saw no big battles during the Civil War, but ...

North Carolina resisted secession longer than every other Confederate state, despite an economy heavily dependent on slavery. After President Abraham Lincoln requested troops to suppress the Southern ...

In April 1861, the United States reached a critical juncture as several southern states withdrew from the Union. The firing ...