(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel.

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no ...

The series, which is sold out this year, takes place at the Hilton Naples, featuring a buffet breakfast, a talk by a ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Bellamy Mansion was built between 1859 and 1861. The mansion was built by free and enslaved ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had referred to Fort Benning and Fort Bragg by their original, Confederate-inspired names.

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...