Registration is now open for the Manitowoc County Historical Society's themed youth summer camps for various age groups.

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

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Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

During this Civil War battle, it was discovered that Mobile Bay was booby-trapped by Confederates with mines or torpedoes as they were called at the time. Faced with the decision to abandon the ...

And while it’s understandable that most Civil War-era history curriculum focuses on the actual battles, some photos nonetheless paint a compelling portrait of daily life during those years of tense ...

At the height of her rising career, Christina Grimmie was tragically shot during a fan meet-and-greet when she was ... You are watching over me & I will live my life with you beside me, in spirit.

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Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

U.S.A.I.D. The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe. The stark ...

Betty Webb was bored—“terribly bored,” as she later put it. It was the Blitz. Germany was dropping bombs on London, and she was halfway across the country at college learning how to cook and ...