It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.

During the final days of the Civil War, something happened that would quietly echo through generations. Today, it connects a ...

But in a 2024 study, we tackled this challenge by focusing on one of the few groups of Americans for whom such information exists: members of Congress. We found that legislators who are descendants of ...

A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the ...

Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere highlights revolutionary spirit; actual events reveal collective citizen action against ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

My grandparents, Nathan and Domenica Borga DePauli, had a farmette on the Route 61 side of Lawton’s Hill until after World War II. In fact, their house was demolished to make way for the new Route ...

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the invasion of Mexico.