As ceremonies, festivals and parades to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War and ...

Hardworking canines are helping staff at Richmond National Battlefield Park identify the unmarked graves of enslaved people.

The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her ...

President John F. Kennedy declares during a nationwide radio and television address that segrega­tion was “morally wrong” and told the U.S. Congress it was “time to act” (pass legislation) to end all ...

Thank you very much, Dean Miles, for that introduction. Class of 2025, families, and friends, it is a tremendous honor for me ...

The flag of Mexico has become ubiquitous on the streets of America as a protest symbol against Donald Trump and his ...

This is the second part of a series in which we examine history from a different angle. The business card has been in its ...

Independent historical drama based on Virginia Morton's book, "Marching Through Culpeper," is in production, set in time of Civil War, resonates today, says its author, an active octogenarian.

This weekend, the echoes of muskets and the stirring words of Lincoln will ring out in Bellefonte as the borough hosts its ...

Nearly forty years ago National Parks Service historian Chris Calkins wrote a two-volume work on the Battle of Appomattox and its aftermath. In 2023 Savas Beatie issued a revised edition of the first ...

Usually, a civil war ... point in the war with a decisive Union victory. Surrender at Appomattox (1865): Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant ...

To historians and archivists, it points to the possibility that Trump’s presidency will leave less for the nation’s historical record than nearly any before it and that what is authorized for public ...