I came across this quote from a speech President Lincoln made in 1838 and it really resonated with me. All Americans should be aware that these thoughts hold true today ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

Crusading journalist and an­ti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Bar­nett was a ...

Wikimedia Commons/Middleton, Strobridge & Co., lithographer; Mathews, Alfred Edward, 1831-1874, artist The 47-day Siege of ...

When President Abraham Lincoln's assassin was tracked down and fatally shot, among the items found on him was a daybook diary ...

That is still the day that is honored as West Virginia Day ever year.

In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

The last few months have been so crazy that it’s easy to forget that America’s sixth-generation fighter is numbered, at least ...

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

Anyone attending the Durham Museum south of Omaha’s Old Market will be near the one-mile marker for the Union Pacific ...

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

When it comes to national holidays, Independence Day is at the top of the list. It is about the birth of a nation. A bold proclamation, protest and philosophy that laid the strong foundation for our ...