This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

April 19 marks 250 years since the first gunfire of the American Revolution rang out at 5:30 a.m. northwest of Boston. It was ...

PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

The Calvert County Department of Planning & Zoning, Historic Preservation, in partnership with the Calvert Historical Society ...

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"I went to go look for myself on Google Maps, and sure enough ... "I would like to draw attention to this disgusting display of American oppression of Canadian culture and autonomy," the woman ...

Anand K Sankaran captured footage, and told media-gathering website Storyful the flag was hung upside-down ... which are every American’s properties," Gavin Carpenter, a Yosemite maintenance ...

President Donald Trump has left open the possibility of Ukraine ceding territory to Russia as he maintained his insistence that he wanted the war in Europe to end ... (This area can be seen outlined ...

Organizers said the inverted flag, historically used as ... Kitty Bennett contributed research. War on the I.R.S.: Italian employees who serve American forces at the Aviano Air Base in Italy ...