The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is being punished by his party for not causing a government shutdown.

Bruton Parish Church officials recently hung a new plaque explaining an existing Civil War-era tablet that honors dead ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

The Carter House, a historic farm built in 1830 that landed at the center of the Battle of Franklin, is getting an $8.5 ...

Author and professor Michael Vorenberg joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The ...

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

Waters said Trump’s recent changes to the government are an attempt to consolidate power and rile up Democrats ...

Virginia and the Forging of a Nation” opens in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech made ...

Humanitarian aid has taken a severe blow as the Trump administration has frozen foreign aid and is attempting to close down the U.S. Agency for International Development.