Before it was set in November, the Thanksgiving holiday bounced across calendars for years, and was almost entirely forgotten ...

The Huntington acquires the Civil War-era Winslow Homer masterwork, "The Sutler's Tent"; Robert Therrien at the Broad; and ...

Matt VanAcker said the conservation efforts will allow visitors to view the flag as it was when it returned to the county in ...

CONCORD, N.H. — In the American Revolution, Granite Staters had to pick a side. Their decisions led to vastly divergent fates ...

Among the first to be built was this Federal-style brick townhouse, a four-story residence that still bears vestiges of its ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s ...

Soldiers who fought in the Civil War and World War I are buried in the Mica Peak Cemetery without proper markers honoring ...

“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...

The date selected for this event was between Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and Nov. 19, which is when President Abraham Lincoln gave ...

By Ross Hetrick December 4, 1865 was a pivotal day in American history when Thaddeus Stevens, with the help of Edward ...