Services and burial for Michigan native John James Witherspoon will be held in Charlevoix Feb. 11-13. He died fighting in Ukraine Jan. 17, 2025.

In his new book, John Wrory Ficklin writes about the three generations of his family who worked in the White House.

By the end of the 18th Century, the act prohibiting the importation of the enslaved made it illegal to transport enslaved Africans to the United States.

Hundreds of strangers filled a Pennsylvania church to ensure a U.S. Navy veteran who died without family received the ...

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

The Garland County Historical Society, in association with the Garland County Library, will host Jane Wilkerson as she presents "Samuel Hamblen: From Lincoln's Funeral to Hot Springs" at noon on ...

Gabor loved teaching and was a dedicated professor. In 1978, he published his first book, Lincoln and the Economics of the ...

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are ...

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

Thousands have converged in northwestern Libya for the funeral of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libya's late leader ...

You thought the funeral was over? So did we. But history has a flair for the dramatic. In Part II, the 150-year-old ceremony continues slower than a reenactment march but twice as surreal. The Civil ...

Claudette Colvin was remembered at her funeral Saturday as a hero in life, and not just for her stance against Montgomery's segregation rules from the mid-1950s when she was just a teenager. Colvin ...