Tomorrow will be the 250th anniversary of the “ shot heard ‘round the world ” that began the American Revolution. Next year, ...

Jeff Kluever, former Allen County Historical Society director and avid Civil War historian, will be in Iola April 26 to talk ...

A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York history.

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

My grandparents, Nathan and Domenica Borga DePauli, had a farmette on the Route 61 side of Lawton’s Hill until after World War II. In fact, their house was demolished to make way for the new Route ...

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the ...