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As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president gracing the west side of the towering state capitol and soaked up the words of his Gettysburg Address, inscribed on ...
As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...
“The genius of Lincoln is that he listened to Thaddeus Stevens,” Hetrick says. A statue of Stevens by Alex Paul Loza was unveiled in 2022 before the Adams County Courthouse in ...
Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.
The schoolhouse stood at the site of the Revolutionary War monument on the Common for the ... What to know Ken Burns, Martin Sheen headlining Gettysburg Film Festival More than 200 years worth ...
And in the Gettysburg National Cemetery, the graves of 73 Wisconsinites are marked with flat, gray stones just a short walk from where President Abraham Lincoln made his most ... especially when it’s ...
Mountainous landscapes, cities where the USA were founded and incredible stories to go alongside them are what Pennsylvania ...
This brings me to Monument Avenue. My first NPS assignment after graduate school was at Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived for 25 years and was elected ...
Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...
The best time to visit Gettysburg is from September to November or between March and May. The town's daytime temperatures in fall and spring, which generally hover between the low 50s and high 70s ...
Before beginning Transfer of the Christ of Mena from the Church of Santo Domingo to his Brotherhood House on the shoulders of a squad of 13 legionary soldiers, a tribute was paid to the fallen and ...