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

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 ...

The Revolutionary War created the United States, while the Civil War nearly tore it apart ... under leaders such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, eventually prevailed, leading to the ...

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

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

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged ... to acquire open space easements on land. Grant recipients will install interpretive ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Civil War ended April 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant; Japan signed formal surrender documents Sept. 2 ...