The staff of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine has grown very happy with telling its story about the development of ...

I read a novel that made several references to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. This conflict between the Dakota people and the white settlers consumed southwestern Minnesota for six ...

Second, public higher education not only serves those who attend their campuses. College education results in stronger ...

Megan Kate Nelson, author of “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the ...

On Dec. 31, 1862, cloaked by what likely was a cold, dark night in the dead of winter, groups of Americans of African descent — some free, others still enslaved — gathered together in secret. As a ...

The hidden story of enslaved Georgians who, however briefly, seized freedom during the Union general’s famous march to the ...

New Year's Eve has often meant hardship for soldiers. This story honors their courage and sacrifice throughout history.

On New Year’s Eve, when most of us will be out celebrating the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 with parties, champagne ...

On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared ...

For more than two centuries US presidential politics and presidential lives have found various pathways through and beyond ...

Unionists responded with their own verses. Augustine Duganne, a New York legislator, soldier and poet, asked in an 1863 poem: ...

Discover the history and significance of Watch Night, a tradition of African American New Year's Eve celebrations, marking the end of slavery and the beginning of freedom.