When the sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor’s monument of Roosevelt was unveiled in Portland in 1922, the then-recently ...

One person was killed and six others wounded in the shooting Saturday night at the school about 40 miles west of Philadelphia ...

From historic homes to a building at Transylvania University, here are the places reported to be haunted in Lexington.

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Today I was thinking about the Civil War, and I was singing an old Appalachian ballad called “Twilight Is Stealing,” written ...

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A new online offering allows the public to peer into the eyes of President Abraham Lincoln and read letters drafted in the ...

In Dissent is a recurring series b Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not […] ...

His moral clarity, his extraordinary gifts with language, his decisive role in preserving the Union and what some consider his ultimate martyrdom combine to make of Lincoln a myth ...

Five weeks after Fort Sumter, the official starting point of the war, Ellsworth’s Fire Zouaves received the command to sail ...