The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...

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

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

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

For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...

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

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

With elections more an outgrowth of identity than a reflection of preference, the country has returned to a post-Civil War ...

An 1866 photograph of objects kept by soldiers at an infamous prison offered a glimpse of wartime horrors. A new book ...

Walter Tolbert’s keepsakes from the war came to the Danville Historical Society by chance. They’re some of the only items the ...

As voters go to the polls in the US tomorrow to elect their 47th president, Americans live in the shadow of Donald Trump’s ...

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