The history of Memorial Day and how it has evolved from its Civil War origins - A pivotal change occurred in 1971 when Congress moved Memorial Day from a fixed May 30 to the last Monday of May, creati ...

Over Memorial Day weekend, people visiting Peaks Island got to see firsthand some of the sights and sounds of late ...

The Camp William Penn Museum near Elkins Park preserves one of the most important but often overlooked chapters of Civil War ...

ON APRIL 14TH,1865, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT FORD’S THEATRE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. BOOTH AND OTHER CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZERS PLOTTED TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — In this episode of Tim Takes You There, Tim Miller visits the American Civil War Museum of Ohio — a hidden gem tucked inside a historic former post office in downtown Tiffin. What began ...

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...

Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine will present historian Megan Kate Nelson, author of the 2020 book “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West,” ...

He was visiting his great-grandfather’s grave at the Old Greencastle Cemetery in Dayton a few years ago when he noticed a group of people mowing the grounds and trimming the ...

Megan Kate Nelson, author of “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West,” will speak on “The American Civil War in the Desert Southwest” Jan. 11 ...