Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and a future president of the United States, and David G ... to the Capitol Rotunda on April 19, 1865. Though less well known, Brig.

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, shortly after the Civil War ended. It details his humble beginnings in ...

The shadow of the Washington Monument towers over “In America: Remember,” an art installation that features flags for every U ...

Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

Mounted cavalry troops lined the streets from the president-elect’s hotel to the Capitol, and sharpshooters stood on rooftops ...

Every year on March 1, South Koreans commemorate the anniversary of the 1919 March 1 Movement, a nationwide uprising against ...

Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly ...

“The flying of this flag at our state ... end of slavery in the United States. According to the National Museum of African American History & Culture, enslaved African Americans in Texas were freed by ...