The tiny central Illinois village of New Salem, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did ...

At the young age of 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two centuries later, the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Association of ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission, a division of the Tennessee Historical Commission, is responsible for administering grants through the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund.

The Tennessee Wars Commission, the Tennessee Historical Commission division responsible for preserving the state’s ...

With this round of grants the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund has now allocated $20,312,188.32 in matching funds for the acquisition and preservation of over 1,100 acres associated with the 38 most ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

In August, Austin, the son of David and Elizabeth Ingall of Temperance, learned he was one of just 10 U.S. students selected for the annual Youth Leadership Team by the American Battlefield Trust.

Visitors to Acworth's historic Lemon House on Saturday were transported back to the Civil War era during the Save Acworth History Foundation's "Gen. Sherman Returns to Acworth" commemoration ...

Installed along Brandy Road in 1927, “Opening of Gettysburg Campaign” sign among first group of silver and black placards ...

As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an unjust war—in their case, Vietnam. The group soon escalated to bombing government buildings and ...