In 1940 the first Civil War Roundtable was founded in Chicago. The Lehigh Valley’s is named the Civil War Roundtable of ...

While the Presidency is today associated with wealth and fame, many early U.S. Presidents came from humble backgrounds and ...

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

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

During the Civil War, Confederates targ ...

There’s a tradition of hiding a pickle Christmas tree ornament on the Christmas tree, then rewarding a child who can find it.

Frederick Douglass was the first black man to discuss politics alone with the president. In Lincoln, the reformer found an ...

On March 4, 1865, just 36 days before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, effectively ending the Civil War he sought to ...

Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights ...

Every few decades, Americans rediscover that their republic was built on a rejection – the rejection of being ruled by a ...

A Dansville resident is turning history into harmony with an original Civil War–inspired composition premiering later this ...

Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and tragedies of the nation’s ...