The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signs nationwide asking visitors for feedback ...

Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that ...

Today, the 2,500-acre Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the siege, including 1,325 historic monuments ...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell didn't hold back his contempt for Trump, who promised to restore the names of military bases to those of Confederate generals.

This article expands and updates a June 2020 article. Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion ...

Jack and Betty, the first two enslaved people believed to have resided in New Paltz, will be honored with new Witness Stones ...

A series of celebrations are planned across central Pennsylvania for Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of slaves at the end of the Civil War.

President Trump has expanded domestic use of the armed forces, testing the limits on involving troops at protests and the ...

On Jan. 1, 1863, nearly two years into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ...

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In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a ...