The 18th president's descendant had a storied career in museum curation before turning his attention to an affable vampire.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s favorite hangout in the Panhandle. Ulysses S. Grant’s East Texas escape. A wharf worker’s cottage in ...

Vote for the best presidential attraction once per day until polls close on August 14 at noon ET. The 10 winners will be ...

The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

TROY – In full Union Army dress and speaking as if straight from the 19th century, living historian Kenneth J. Serfass ...

Something amazing happened in Chico 120 years ago this month. On July 10, 1905, Annie Bidwell deeded 1,903 acres of her land to the City of Chico to be used as a public park. Mrs. Bidwell said she ...

Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi is receiving over $5 million toward restoring a key Civil War monument and removing a building that previously was used as a visitors’ center.

Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred ...

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...

Bryan Dobson and Dearbhail McDonald present The Last Irish Missionaries present, Human tells the story of humanity, Michael ...

During the Civil War, the “Rock House,” which was located high on a ridge on the Jackson Road (later Openwood Street and now ...

The sharp-tongued life of the party delivers withering, hilarious commentary on The Gilded Age. What was she really like?