On Sept. 14, 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight ...

A new Civil War monument will be installed soon on the northeast corner of the Jasper County Courthouse lawn. It will offer the Union perspective on the ...

COLUMN. In 1812, the United States boasted more joint-stock companies than any other nation, with nearly half of them being ...

Throughout the relatively short history of the US, it’s become a tradition that presidents have their coffins draped in the ...

A White Settlement museum claiming to have the largest collection of Civil War artifacts west of the Mississippi will close ...

Regional author Jack Dickinson will discuss his new book “British Interests in the American Civil War: Interventionists and ...

The Mount Rushmore carving of Abraham Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, was officially dedicated on this day in history, ...

A US dive team has discovered the wreck of a French steamship, Le Lyonnais, that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1856 after a ...

Shippensburg Area Civil War Roundtable will meet Tuesday, September 17, at 7 PM at Christ United Methodist Church, 47 East King Street, Shippensburg.

A detailed and entertaining version of that story makes up a portion of the recent book, “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of ...

1847: During the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City. 1861: The first naval engagement of the Civil War ...

In 1946 there were still 16 survivors of the Civil War living in Texas, all of whom were more than 100 years old. They lived ...