Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

Among the weathered and once-cracked headstones in Michigan’s historic Brighton Village Cemetery, the dual grave markers for Lt. Col. John Gilluly stand out. It was a late summer day when I was drawn ...

Former President of the Michigan Historical Commission Jack Dempsey provided introductory remarks for his talk about a Michigan woman’s Civil War journal and her experience during the war. The Abraham ...

When there were rumors of a plot against the life of Abraham Lincoln before his 1861 inauguration, there was no official ...

Casey Cep on Ronald E. Walters of the National Cemetery Administration.

Note: The Copperheads were the anti-war peace ... against the Northern states’ efforts to abolish slavery and the Civil War itself to force the states to remain part of the Union.

Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted with ... General Juan Cortina continued to support the Union during the Civil War. In September 1864, Cortina crossed the river into Texas with three ...

Joseph Hilton, a Confederate general and an extremely wealthy lumber baron, after summering at River Hook for eighteen years, ...

Four years ago, millions more voters in the U.S. became familiar with voting by mail. But a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum opens Saturday as a reminder that earlier ...

It is the only Confederate Treasury note issued in this ... an 1862 $1 Criswell 342-A note that brought $687.50 and an 1864 $500 note, only the second issue of the denomination by the CSA, which ...

Fort Gorges, located on a tiny island in Casco Bay just off the coast of Portland, Maine, is no exception. This massive, ...