In 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel. In 1868, the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate began impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Andrew Johnson, a ...

The Indiana Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, or MOLLUS, will conduct a ceremony at Newark Cemetery in Greene County on Saturday, March ...

How the Union’s Barely Remembered “Invalid Corps” Became the Most Significant Civil War Force You’ve Never Heard Of ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare ...

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, March 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Richard Carwardine, author of Righteous Strife: How Warring ...

Contrary to George F. Will’s argument in his March 8 op-ed, “ Presidents make war, not Congress ,” the Constitution entrusts exclusively to Congress in Article I, Section 8, Clause 11, the ...

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, D.C., served as a retreat for President Abraham Lincoln during his years in office, functioning much like a modern presidential ...

Normally, when someone is confronted with a Latin legal term their eyes glaze over and their brain shuts down. Well, here is a Latin term you need to know — habeas corpus. The term is a legal concept ...

During the American Civil War, tens of thousands of soldiers used a simple envelope to cast their ballot from the battlefield ...

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address was truly prophetic—it revealed the spiritual meaning of the Civil War.

After President Abraham Lincoln’s death from an assassin’s bullet on April 15, 1865, his vice president, Andrew Johnson, ...

A local historical group will be hosting a presentation about popular music during the American Civil War, including President Abraham Lincoln’s favorite music.