Less than a year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, while our nascent nation was still in ...

The Treasury Department unveiled new coins celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. They failed to include planned designs ...

Around 4,000 artifacts are inside the Gettysburg Museum of History on Baltimore Street. The building is out of exhibit space.

An October conference examined the legacy of the Siege of Petersburg, a grim episode in America’s “great single tragic event.

Civil War enthusiasts can now follow the tense weeks leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg one mailbox delivery at a time ...

Through the most bloody war in American history to date, Lincoln unleashed an inchoate “secret constitution” that began to ...

Are military leaders fired in the middle of a war? Often, yes, but extreme circumstances are required to get to ...

US coins showcase American identity and public memory through their designs. The America 250 coins just unveiled reflect the ...

Visitors can step into five 19th century Christmases in one evening as the Shriver House Museum resumes its “Five Christmases ...

Now a simmering civil war within Heritage — and the conservative movement itself — has spilled out into public view. One faction, led by Jewish conservatives and Christian Zionists like Senator Ted ...

When Union forces swept through Guntersville in the final year of the Civil War, all but seven buildings were burned to ash.