On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the United States' first known case of novel ...

After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Between the winter of 1860 and the ...

A culture clash driven by finances and Old World alignments had the Big Apple contemplating leaving the Union. The Civil War ...

Abraham Lincoln, America's 16th President, guided the nation through its most challenging period, the Civil War. He ...

The central "myth of America" has just been cleanly exposed by President Donald Trump — but it's been staring onlookers in the face for centuries, a New York Times columnist wrote Tuesday. Americans ...

The Trump administration took down the slavery exhibit at Independence National Historical Park. The erasure of our shared ...

War is part of the human condition. To keep your assets safe during wartime, diversity where possible and move assets out of the country.

After four bloody years and over 700,000 deaths, the Confederacy surrendered. More than four million enslaved persons were ...