After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels ...

In the 1930s, the Communist Party of the United States of America boasted nearly 100,000 members. Today, its few thousand ...

Relive history as knowledgeable reenactors, both military and civilian in period costume, recreate an American Civil War Encampment and Battle in a rural setting in Hainesville. The annual Civil ...

Army Sgt. John Preston Donaldson of Butler, a Commissary Sergeant during the Civil War, was at the Village of Appomattox ...

The Heartland is steeped in history, and one moment that occurred almost exactly 167 years ago serves as a prime example.

On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite ...

Tyler Alexander’s ‘If I Can Get Home This Fall’ shares a collection of historical letters illuminating what motivated a young ...

The mayor’s position that the city can block the enforcement of federal immigration law puts him in the position of the ...

Ubisoft allegedly scrapped early plans for an Assassin's Creed game set during the U.S. post-Civil War period, a report has ...

Trump deploys 400 National Guard troops to Chicago, invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act in a controversial move reminiscent of ...