If we are to preserve and improve our democracy, the work must be our own and every individual citizen has a responsibility.

Every July Fourth brings fireworks, picnics, parades and happy celebrations of American freedom. But behind the festivities ...

Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Roundtable will have a presentation at 6 p.m. Monday, July 21, in Hampton Township. Jared Peatman will present “The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address,” to ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished ...

"Wildflowers of New England," with images by Edwin Hale Lincoln, and a smaller show of work by Lindsey Beal and May Babcock ...

You’re weighing the totality of consequences — the 750,000 deaths, the bitterness that metastasized into Jim Crow, the Confederacy's martyr mythos that still haunts us — against the possibility of a ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

The hedge fund founder paid $13.7 million for a copy of the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation ...

He volunteered to serve the Union in the Civil War, and was an active part of a Marshall veteran’s group. But for more than ...

Not only is June 20th the first day of summer, but it’s also the day commemorating one state’s quest for statehood.