Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

On April 12, 1861, South Carolinians opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor to begin America’s bloody Civil War and put ... and philosopher Henry James. Both in Boston and on Aquidneck ...

Historians say it is possible that George Laurens is among the 20 people buried in unmarked Mepkin graves that abut the small ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

Perhaps no greater example of this was the era of the Civil War, when the Smithsonian ... the Smithsonian during the 1850s. Early in the war, Henry ran into added difficulties because of the ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

EDWARDSVILLE — The Madison County Historical Society will host Parlor Music of the Civil War Era at the Main Street ... 2 p.m., Alton Little Theater, 2450 N. Henry St., Alton.

Things I Hate About You, Romeo and Juliet, and The Lion King are all among the best movies from the work of William ...

Dust off the history books and there are papal conclaves with international intrigue, royal rigging and even riots, a ...

Just 41 years later, in 1642, when civil war broke out during the reign of James’s son ... a courageous rescue was mounted by Colonel Henry Gage, who with a small force broke through the ...

The patriarch is originally a farmer from Tennessee and a Confederate veteran of the Civil War. He decides to ... She is Jacob and James’ sister and Henry’s widow. She had seven children ...