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

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

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

“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.

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

The idea of Dr. Etcheson’s book being turned into a documentary film was brought to Gudaitis Production in 2019 when Jim ...