The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about ...

USS Abraham Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to support maritime security and stability in the ...

Gabor S. Boritt, renowned author, scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, founder of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing ...

A rumor that Fox News host Jesse Watters said, "If [U.S. President Donald] Trump had been president during the Civil War, we would've won it," circulated online in December 2025. For example, one ...

At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — All across the Midlands and the rest of America, people are coming together for Thanksgiving. The origin of Thanksgiving goes back hundreds of years in North America. There have ...

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the ...

Portrait of American President Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) (painted by George P. Healy, mid-late 1800s), (Photo by Katherine Young/Getty Images) In his 2007 book “Land of Lincoln: Adventures in ...

In just over a year's time, Anthony Mackie will have the chance to shake off the Captain America: Brave New World negativity as he returns in the hotly-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday. Also set to ...