Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

As rain hammered the roof Thursday evening, the founder of the Cannon Valley Civil War Roundtable struggled to hide the ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...

Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the ...

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This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

Behind the headlines, and largely unreported, the basic measures of human well-being have continued to improve in recent ...

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Kaliane Bradley spent several exhausting days at the London Book Fair ... from World War I; Margaret Kemble from the plague in 1665; Thomas Cardingham, a lieutenant in the English Civil War ...