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 ...

Civil War scholar Gabor S. Boritt has died at age 86. His family says he died Monday in Pennsylvania. Boritt was a Hungarian ...

CAMBRIDGE — It doesn’t matter whether a document is as ephemeral as a postcard or as enduring as Lincoln’s notes for the Gettysburg Address. Being handwritten declares that it’s human handiwork. An ...

Gabor S. Boritt, renowned author, scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, founder of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) filed an amicus brief Tuesday in Philadelphia’s lawsuit against Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and acting National Park Service Director Jessica Bowron ...

The American Civil War left scars on the landscape that have never truly healed, but nowhere is this more evident than in the ...

Dark tourism involves visiting places shaped by tragedy, violence, or loss. The sites that matter most center the people ...

Rachel Pizzolato explores the Gettysburg Address Monument with history insights.

Former journalist and university educator Bruce Chadwick has written a different sort of book about the Battle of Gettysburg. Although titled “an oral history,” in fact it tells the story of the ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered his incomparable Gettysburg Address. A Carrollton man was on stage with Lincoln during the moment. James Fry had been part of the President’s small ...

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” “We here highly ...