Alex J. Hayes The roughly 6,000-acre Gettysburg National Military Park surrounds the downtown and is a must for history buffs, especially those with an interest in the Civil War. It was here that ...

In October 1864, according to local lore, three women walked to the community cemetery in the village of Boalsburg, Centre ...

Between scheduled stops, she and her father would leap out of the RV to take pictures of historical markers ... her work has been well received by Civil War scholars. But that’s partly ...

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.

After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina ... to vote and their children the promise of free public education. By 1870, just five ...

That helps to explain why invading Confederate soldiers eagerly kidnapped free ... Gettysburg. Stevens, of course, was Lancaster County’s Republican congressional representative during the Civil ...

Adventure Scholar is the newest addition to Elderscholar SM and its programs. The travel initiative offers experiential adventure opportunities through day and overnight trips for "young at heart" ...

History buffs with an interest in everything from ancient civilizations to the Civil War to world leaders will likely love perusing the exhibits at the Gettysburg Museum of History. Inside this ...

Local Civil rights groups protest, outside the Naval Academy’s Gate One, an executive order by President Donald Trump that removed 381 books from the academy. Pastor Stephen Tillett, a retired Lt.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, shots fired in Lexington and Concord set off the Revolutionary War. A new nation, ...

You know about the battlegrounds and the Gettysburg address, but this time of year, Gettysburg is also bursting with blooms.