I. Abraham Lincoln is best remembered, of course, for winning the Civil War. That epic event, however, has obscured another ...

Tomorrow will be the 250th anniversary of the “ shot heard ‘round the world ” that began the American Revolution. Next year, ...

When Anderson Carman decided to collaborate on a comic textbook about the Civil War with history professor Andrew Fialka, he ...

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

When President Abraham Lincoln described the origin of the United States as founded “on the proposition that all men are created equal,” he wasn’t just delivering a Civil War pep ...

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.