Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

When Farragut is remembered, it’s usually from a famous utterance during the Battle of Mobile Bay on Aug. 5, 1864. During this Civil War battle, it was discovered that Mobile Bay was booby ...

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...

Every major Civil War battle east of the Mississippi River occurred ... vehicles were versatile and could travel nearly anywhere. A famous episode in September 1914 saw a fleet of Parisian taxis ...

The Battle of Fort Sumter marked the moment decades of tension between northern and southern states, primarily over slavery, became a full blown Civil War. On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces ...

The battles, which resulted in the deaths of 49 American militia members, are considered the first of the Revolutionary War. Reenactments ... institutions and civil liberties while undermining ...

Along the way, Rienzi became so famous ... war effort. Whatever its literary flaws, Read's poem captured one image indelibly — a powerful horse carrying a determined man into battle.

(Walt Whitman, who volunteered at D.C. Army hospitals beginning in 1862, was the most famous of these scriveners ... would fight in the Civil War. Though no battles took place in the state ...