Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the ...

Among the weathered and once-cracked headstones in Michigan’s historic Brighton Village Cemetery, the dual grave markers for Lt. Col. John Gilluly stand out. It was a late summer day when I was drawn ...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Then in January of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the ...

Last Civil War Union veteran buried in Osceola County Michigan, Oren Button, honored in ceremony at Forest Hill Cemetery in ...

One of the defining events of U.S. history is the Civil War, which lasted almost exactly four years, from April 12, 1861 to ...

Casey Cep on Ronald E. Walters of the National Cemetery Administration.

She shot an 1873 single-action Colt pistol and an 1861 Springfield flintlock rifle that ... sorry for the Civil War soldiers who had to use it in the heat of battle. But the definite highlight for ...

The assassination attempts on former president Donald Trump point to continuity rather than a shockingly unexpected turn in American politics.

Of all the schisms that cleave contemporary America, few are more stark than the divide between those who consider themselves ...