The Soldiers’ National Cemetery, where Lincoln delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address, provides a place for quiet reflection on the human cost of the battle and the nation’s ongoing journey toward ...

Learn how food (or the lack thereof) and the logistics behind it played a critical role during the Civil War at the next ...

A monument in “old” St. Joseph Cemetery in Bedford is undergoing restoration. Along with patching, repainting, landscaping, and installing new lights, two new flags were hoisted up: an American flag ...

Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody war Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed ...

Tucked away in the rolling hills of Barbour County sits a historical gem that many travelers zoom past without realizing they’re crossing a national treasure – the Philippi Covered Bridge, a ...

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating ...

On Nov. 7, 1775, in the face of growing unrest in the colony, the royal governor of Virginia issued a proclamation offering ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

Mona Ziade, who helped The Associated Press cover major events out of the Middle East during the 1980s and ’90s, has died. She was 66. Her daughter Tamara Blanche said that Ziade died Tuesday after ...

It would take another war and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives for a new birth of freedom to begin its reign.