In September 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 ...

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 ...

Russia has launched a major counterattack in its Kursk border region, more than a month after a surprise invasion by Kyiv’s forces that turned the tables in the two-and-a-half-year war.

"This is an unprecedented move for TIFF," the fest said in a statement. By Mia Galuppo Film Writer TIFF has announced it will halt the screening of the controversial documentary Russians at War ...

In a speech before Congress in January 1862, Lancaster’s U.S. Rep ... As the 1850s and the long political slog toward the Civil War progressed, Stevens became more radical as an opponent ...

While some things could have been better, the film does manage to pull off what it intends to and is, in that sense, a civil war drama. It can be watched here. Directed by Diego Vicentini, this drama ...

David Armitage is Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University and author of Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Yale University Press, 2018) ...

Jacob Nix was an eyewitness to the Sioux uprising of 1862. Nix, a forty-year-old emigrant who had fled the German revolution of 1848 and eventually arrived in New Ulm in 1858, was placed in charge of ...

The mean of the previous seventeen Summers is 13.86 inches, so that the quantity in 1862 is about 132 per cent. above the mean, or nearly 2 1/3 times the average. This is certainly a very ...