On the eve of anniversaries of the Declaration and the Battle of Gettysburg, it’s time to consider connections between the wars in York County.

During a visit to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, President Donald Trump said that seven military bases once named for Confederate military figures — and then renamed under former President Joe Biden ...

Sanford Levinson maintains that a peaceful breakup would be preferable to a divided polity, while Tarence Ray argues that the ...

The study of American History is often neatly divided between the period of the Civil War and before and the period after the ...

Article I of the U.S. Constitution declares that “the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” ...

A dangerous consequence of not knowing our history is not knowing our truth. Many Americans are taught that the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, […] ...

The following news items are reprinted from the Manistee Daily News for the week May 29 through June 4, 1925 and are compiled from the Manistee County Historical Museum’s newspaper archives. Read the ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

“The Constitution is clear ... Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus multiple times during the Civil War, beginning in 1861 to detain suspected spies and Confederate sympathizers. He ignored a ...

Per Article I, Section 5 of the United States Constitution ... military position in the Confederacy. Three members of the House were expelled in 1861 for their disloyalty to the Union ...

There were also divergent views on how the Constitution ... Alabama in February, 1861 to declare independence from the American Union, officially calling themselves the Confederate States of ...