If you haven't paid careful attention to flagpoles in the state, Ohio's banner is not your typical rectangle. Here's why.

Famed I.O.O.F. members have included Presidents William McKinley, U.S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and Franklin Roosevelt (as ...

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The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

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For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

The University of Wisconsin system, now a network of progressive education and civic engagement, once echoed the same settler ...

Troy McKinley was launching the first day of his Minnesota Prepper Expo on June 20 when someone handed him a phone with breaking news. An FBI agent had described alleged political assassin Vance ...

In its 133 years in existence, the capital city’s Historic Pumphouse has been a vital piece of downtown infrastructure, the site of near disaster and a relic with an uncertain future. Now City Council ...

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...