The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

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Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The shell flew upward through the dark sky over Charleston Harbor and burst ...

Thousands left their homes in the United States to stand against Spanish General Franco and fascism. This is episode 58 of Stories of Resistance.

The words of the Psalmist were on his mind. “If I forget thee,” Abraham Lincoln thought, speaking not at this moment of God’s ...

Lincoln's "Lost Speech" has been called the most important event in Bloomington history, but the journey to a create a mural ...

Donald Trump in his first 100 days tested that system like rarely before, signing dozens of executive orders, closing or ...

The power of the American ideal comes not from Americans being a “particular people” with a common heritage—an ...

The driving force on Capitol Hill is cowardice, as both GOPers and Dems confess to fear of violence. It wasn't always that ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Wikimedia Commons/bnbnhjt The 1939 Marian Anderson Easter Concert (Washington, D.C.) On April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson sang ...