The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Liberty Theater was built in 1921 and is located in the heart of downtown Amarillo. The theater spent years as the only ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has deployed the National Guard to prisons across New York state, where striking corrections officers say they want better conditions to help improve staffing levels; as reenactors ...

A boy born into slavery in South Carolina was separated from his family at age five and later reunited with his father in ...

Efforts are underway to include the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home on the Civil War Trails as it expands into southwestern ...