"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings ...

The American Civil War was the first major conflict that was photographed extensively, bringing shocking and often horrific images to the front pages and into people's living rooms. Photography ...

There were about 55,000 physicians in the United States at the start of the Civil War ... MD overhauled the American military medical system. The war provided a vast resource of unusual wounds ...

Martin Johnson Heade painted the enigmatic “Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay” in the wake of the American Civil War.

In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

He kept a cool head during the American Civil War, but a heatwave proved too much for his statue. A wax effigy of President Abraham Lincoln has melted as temperatures soared over the weekend in ...

The exhibit is open now and spotlights the vital role Black soldiers played in the Civil War. It features Lincoln-era photographs, letters, documents, and art. “With this exhibi ...