The wounds of the Civil War remained fresh more than three decades after the end of the divisive conflict, with limited ...

IrishCentral Contributor Joseph Gannon considers Cork-born General Pat Cleburne's proposal during the US Civil War.

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln ... thought by many as the greatest American president. Last week, the Adrian, Michigan, resident ...

Throughout our nation’s history, there have been many incredible moments, ones which we still discuss with reverence today.

Maya Freelon portraits can be seen during the exhibition “Whippersnappers: Recapturing, Reviewing, and Reimagining the Lives ...

At statehood, California was not a part of the East Coast circus circuits. Yet the first circus west of the Mississippi was ...

Abraham Lincoln faced a civil war in 1860 and Franklin D Roosevelt the Great Depression ... she would do the same even when ...

For decades, historians have cobbled together clues. But thanks to a newly released set of census records spanning three ...

If the military folds as though it were some wingnut congresscritters from Bugtussle County, I don't know where we go from ...

once at the precipice of civil war at home, the other time over a proxy war 8,000 miles away. Everything was on the line in the elections of 1860 and 1968, and, as is the case now, no one had a ...

This past week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Civil War roundtable in Wheeling. The talk was held at the Ohio County Library in the auditorium on the lower level and there was a good turnout.

Mathew Brady gained fame with his photographs of soldiers and the aftermath of battles during the American Civil War. But ...