Recent rehabilitation of this important site at the Gettysburg battlefield provides a much improved experience for visitors.
Dickinson played a pivotal role in our Nation’s founding, from the Stamp Act to ratifying the Constitution, but his contributions are largely forgotten by history.
Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.
In the Age of Discovery, maps held closely guarded secrets for the kings, adventurers, and merchants who first acquired them.
Since her untimely death in 1963, the legendary country music star—and the first female to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame—continues to inspire new audiences and artists.
At the Gettysburg reunion fifty years after the battle, it was no longer blue and gray. Now it was all gray.
Even though he had no military training, Lincoln quickly rose to become one of America’s most talented commanders.
Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.
When John Adams was elected president, and Thomas Jefferson as vice president, each came to see the other as a traitor. Out of their enmity grew our modern political system.
Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create.
The discoverer of the New World was responsible for the annihilation of the peaceful Arawak Indians