A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

This wine trail in Maryland offers exquisite vineyard views, a tasty array of wines, and some historical charm.

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...

Regional animosities have existed in Illinois since before it was admitted to the Union in 1818 as the 21st state, and only grew stronger with Chicago’s rise as an economic powerhouse in the late 19th ...

Although Frank Meyer Frank was a National Review colleague of William F. Buckley, who loathed Murray Rothbard, Frank admired Rothbard and the two men often ...

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

Jones's book Allan Pinkerton offers a riveting account of a largely overlooked figure whose shadow still looms over modern ...

Barry McNealy, a historian with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, joined the CBS 42 Morning News to discuss the importance of Juneteenth.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...