Jeff Kluever, former Allen County Historical Society director and avid Civil War historian, will be in Iola April 26 to talk ...

When President Abraham Lincoln described the origin of the United States as founded “on the proposition that all men are created equal,” he wasn’t just delivering a Civil War pep ...

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

The two greatest presidents died in April, 80 years apart, one 80 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, 56, was slain while enjoying a comedy at Ford’s Theatre. After 12 years of a crisis presidency, Franklin ...

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

Our friends from Company G of the 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry will once again set up camp on grounds the of Pike ...

Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger] ...

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

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

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