Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events ...

This weekend, history came to life in Centre County.The Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association hosted an American ...

The proposed memorial highway would run through tribal lands in Leelanau County, where descendants of Company K soldiers ...

Meanwhile, there are distinctive European conditions that make civil war less likely there than in the United States: Smaller ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

A new exhibition at Fort Point in San Francisco, organised by the non-profit For-Site, features works by 16 artists and a ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national ...