After this election, widely claimed to be the most important in U. S. history, upon which the fate of democracy itself rests, ...

DECADE OF DISUNION: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War. By Robert W. Merry. Simon and Schuster.

The Yates County Historian’s Office and Veterans Services Agency, along with the Middlesex Heritage Group, will hold a ...

There was no big fanfare. Only a handful of people gathered to pay their respects. Yet there was something profound about the ...

Veterans of wars from two different centuries are buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Sycamore, and DeKalb County locals are trying ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

Many became involved in the Civil War. Musicians, nurses, spies ... reported one battlefield observer in 1865, “revived the ...

Lowrie lived and fought for the civil and voting rights of his people in southeast ... The fight became well known as the ...

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

With Kamala Harris’s concession, America stands at a crossroads, deciding whether to return to the foundations of White ...

A historian who has studied the post-Civil War era reminds us that culture wars drive turnout as well as partisanship. And the cure doesn’t always work as intended.

The remains of several more Civil War veterans were sent to Maine ... Grebien said the burials recall important lessons about ...