Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The ...

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

The crown gem of the Lincoln collection from Connecticut's Univeristy Archives is an interpositive image of President Abraham ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

By Don Heinrich Tolzmann Special to NKyTribune Cincinnati has a monument in Washington Park in Over-the-Rhine that honors ...

For many people, the term “marshals” conjures Hollywood portrayals like Tommy Lee Jones chasing down a fugitive in the 1998 ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

A Washington Post review of websites operated by the National Park Service found that edits on dozens of pages since ...

The idea of Dr. Etcheson’s book being turned into a documentary film was brought to Gudaitis Production in 2019 when Jim ...