Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

Map of this Revolutionary War Road Trip Itinerary To help you plan ... It’s home to Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. Here, the Patriots fought hard to defend ...

A weekend getaway or a day trip from nearby Washington, D.C, Baltimore, MD, Richmond, VA, or Harrisburg, PA to Winchester, VA, are all within a […] ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

Just hours after a federal judge threatened a contempt-of-court investigation over the Trump administration’s deportation flights, the White House sought to freeze the legal debate by reminding ...

Metro Police were forced to shut down 14th street, a major road across the National Mall ... the Continental Congress’ nine-month stay in York during the Revolutionary War. The peaceful protesters ...

From the 1760s until the Civil War, runaway slave ads in the Virginia and North Carolina newspapers ... The most useful map was a digital representation of the swamp’s vegetation.

“We’d study the road atlas and plot trips around places like the Little Bighorn and Mount Rushmore,” Knowles recalls. “Historical landmarks were our pins in the map.” Between scheduled ...

Tucked away in the historic district where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet, this unassuming culinary gem has West ...