An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program, running from 2022 through 2025, celebrates the trailblazing contributions of ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is being punished by his party for not causing a government shutdown.

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

Virginia and the Forging of a Nation” opens in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech made ...

"The new center will allow us to tell these powerful stories until at least the 200th anniversary of the American Civil War." For more information about the Tennessee Historical Commission and the ...

President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy after ...