The Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts who oversees the archive, teamed up ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...

ACLU History Introduction In the years following World War I, America was gripped by the fear that the Communist Revolution that had taken place in Russia would spread to the United States. As is ...

Overview of the Lesson - Landmines and the American Civil War Author Ken Rutherford provides an overview of his lecture about the early history of landmines, which were used for the first time on ...

Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes Revolutionary War pension files and Civil War documents.

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

By Courtney Cole Click here for updates on this story GROTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) -- A scroll where Baptist ministers took an early ...

Lee Smith (Dunst) is a celebrated war photographer, reporting for Reuters on the demise of the United States, amidst a modern American Civil War.

A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and documents left by her grandfather, a Confederate general who wanted all the ...

That American Revolution/Civil War link is particularly true in York County, which sits on the Mason-Dixon Line, close to military movements, supply lines and bloody battlefields.

He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost to history. "No one knew about Sandy Wills," said Cheryl wills, Sandy's great-great-great-granddaughter.