Several Medal of Honor recipients performed their deeds of heroism before they ever settled in Arkansas. This includes two ...

On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

Dating from 1784, the letter was written after America had achieved independence, but at a time when it wasn't clear whether the new nation would succeed.

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

We must become critical consumers of history again. Our present-day society demands it. We as black historians and consumers have a new black power. We finally have a platform to give our studied ...

The United States of America is a country situated in the North American continent. It is the fourth largest country in the ...

I was the last federal homesteader in the United States under the Homestead Act of 1862,” proudly proclaimed Duane Ose.

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was elected President of the United States of America on November 6, 1860, for a four-year term. One year later, on November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was ...

MEDORA, N.D. ( North Dakota Monitor) – A park in western North Dakota that owed its name to a United States military officer ...

In May 1862, as the American Civil War was entering its second year, the English novelist Anthony Trollope, who had just returned from a year’s travel around the United States, likened the US ...

The American Civil War ended in the late spring of 1865 with a decisive Union military victory. Despite being defeated ...