At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...
Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.
The headline parade will take place in Dublin where the theme for this year’s event is adventures or “eachtraí” in Irish. The parade will feature seven large-scale pageants, six showpieces and 12 ...
Hunting Island State Park, just a short drive from downtown Beaufort, offers 5,000 acres of maritime forest, marsh, and beach ...
The brick streets downtown are lined with cute shops and restaurants. You can almost hear the clip-clop of horses from the ...
The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
Civil War volunteers from Manitowoc County carried the flag with them until they returned. James Anderson and other survivors kept it in their possession until 1925. At that time, the flag was ...
Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney earned the Medal of Honor by carrying the American flag through fire at Fort Wagner, ...
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
In those years, the auction houses offered all kinds of lots in semi-annual American art sales, dating from the Revolutionary War to World War II. “You would find Albert Bierstadt in the same ...