Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...
In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state. In ...
Wartime chronicles written by a Civil War veteran steeped in Sandwich history have been rediscovered by a Malta man who has a ...
(WHSV) - 164 years ago on Nov. 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected as president of the Confederate States of America. Davis’ election happened a year to the day after Abraham Lincoln was elected ...
Santa Cruz County was largely united against slavery, voting for Abraham Lincoln, and fighting to preserve the Union,” writes columnist “But county crime ...