The move from local to state control takes effect immediately. Kehoe will appoint a transition director. The implementation ...

The Save Acworth History Foundation will host a commemoration event this weekend highlighting an important moment in the city ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

On July 7, 1864, the men of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, largely made up of Lehigh County residents, were ...

In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

Finalizing its dismantling is likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created the department in 1979.

Chicago’s role as a “hotbed of abolition” before the Civil War will be the subject Wednesday of a Looking for Lincoln Conversations program.

The group, which met last week at the Issues Conference and demonstrated its division in the Capitol, is struggling to find a ...