Four score and five years after the founding of the American republic, disunion and civil war threatened what President Abraham Lincoln called “the fate of these United States.” Akin to the Revolution ...

It was a week before Thanksgiving Day in 1963. I was halfway through my shift at the punch press at Waterloo Register. A manager came up to me on the assembly line and said, “JFK was shot.”  I was 30 ...

Discover the extraordinary story of Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a hero during the Civil War. Learn how his actions changed the course of the war.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that white men of a certain religion are responsible for so much damage just ...

Richard Moe, a DFL Party stalwart who served as Vice President Walter Mondale’s chief of staff and went on to lead the National Trust for Historic Preservation for nearly two decades, died on Sept. 15 ...

On October 15, 1860, a few weeks before Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, Grace Bedell sent him a ...

The lunchtime crowd received a history lesson on counterfeiting from retired U.S. Secret Service agent Julie Ferrell. The ...

There are a lot of ways that filmmakers and storytellers have reworked real history with an alternate version of that history ...