The library hosts a pair of notable events this week, including a historical reenactment of the 1925 ceremony of a Civil War ...

The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

It highlights key events such as the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to maintain a balance between North and South regarding slavery. The film also ...

The Confederacy had been victorious at Fort Sumter in April and now the next battle - at Bull Run was taking place. The men, women and children who made up the wealthy elite of Washington came out in ...

John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...

Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured great economic collapse. We call it the Great Depression. And we have ...

Language proposed by Thaddeus Stevens provided [t]hat all persons who, on [March 4, 1861], were of ... All born on American soil and under the American flag were "natural-born … citizens." ...

A new resolution introduced in the Georgia Senate seeks to honor the late President Jimmy Carter by placing his statue in the ...

Flow is the first word that comes to mind when viewing the new collection of works at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

The shadow of the Washington Monument towers over “In America: Remember,” an art installation that features flags for every U ...

Last week’s Presidential Address to Congress was a disappointment. Shame on President Trump, who acted anything but “presidential.” With the opening lines of his speech, Trump began to taunt the ...