Nearly a century after the Civil Conservation Corps reconstructed the once-thriving village of New Salem where Abraham ...

The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series wraps up on Monday, April 21 with a thought-provoking program titled “Statues, ...

C.A.R., Daughters of the American Revolution, or D.A.R., Mary Penrose Wayne Chapter, and Sons of the American Revolution ...

Books about revolution — national and personal — give us a look today into the years leading up to the American Revolution as well as one young Chinese man’s search for freedom. And on a lighter topic ...

Lex celebrates Women’s History Month by collaborating with local museums to examine the contributions women have made in the ...

La Jolla Playhouse debuts the world premiere of "3 Summers of Lincoln" while North Coast Rep presents the San Diego premiere of "What the Constitution Means to Me." ...

Go behind the choreography of 3 Summers of Lincoln at La Jolla Playhouse. Watch a video of co-lyricist and co-choreography Daniel J. Watts break down the dancing in the new musical, alongside his ...

God bless America, and how's everybody?

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

The friendship that developed, during perhaps the most turbulent time in American History, between two apparently dissimilar ...

Although men were the primary landowners, women often oversaw the property rights of the land during the Civil War in ...