The 18th president's descendant had a storied career in museum curation before turning his attention to an affable vampire.

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred ...

This video delves into the pivotal strategies and campaigns of 1864 that led to the Union's decisive advantage in the ...

During the Civil War, the “Rock House,” which was located high on a ridge on the Jackson Road (later Openwood Street and now ...

A free two-day event commemorating 250 years of American history will be held at Valley View Park this weekend, featuring ...

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

The camp was in existence throughout the Civil War under several names, but it is best known as Camp Grant after Grant, who visited numerous times to muster in Illinois infantry regiments ...