In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War ... then sets fire to Pennsylvania Hall. 1845: Slaveholding Texas is annexed into the United States, sparking the Mexican War.

Civil War's United States has been splintered into multiple warring factions, but a shared enemy has united most of them ...

Hailed as a groundbreaking technical achievement, it came to symbolise the border between the Civil War North and South, separating free Pennsylvania ... project Outdated maps meant fresh ...

A Pennsylvania community is fuming over proposed plans to house 1,000 undocumented migrant minors in a historic Civil-war era orphanage. A recent letter from a representative for Indiana-based ...

Danielle Russell, a senior at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, has spent the past six years doing research to tell the ...

A Pennsylvania community is up in arms over reports that as many as 1,000 migrants were to be and reportedly still could be housed in a Civil War-era orphanage most recently used as a summer camp ...

Americans will go to the polls to choose their next president. But the process that translates those millions of votes into ...

Residents of one Pennsylvania county are in an uproar over plans to use a former school for Civil War orphans to house migrants.

Child welfare agencies are removing children from moms who use weed despite scarce evidence marijuana harms kids in utero or through breastfeeding.

The $8 million sculpture was funded by dozens of influential families who found a personal connection to the war. The ...

Casey Cep on Ronald E. Walters of the National Cemetery Administration.