Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist ...

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield.

In the 1840s, Parker was denied admission to the New York State bar, despite meeting all the requirements and training to ...

George Washington’s war tent, created in Reading during the Valley Forge encampment in 1778, is an iconic part of the Museum ...

Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer, has been posthumously admitted to the New York State Bar.

Ely Samuel Parker, a Native American who served as an aide to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was kept from practicing ...

Ken Burns, with co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, gives us an in-depth look at the war for independence that ...

Robert E. Ryan, WWII veteran and Alton attorney, dies at 102; POW survivor and lifelong community member honored.

Pulitzer-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward talks with Dalton Delan about his new book and Ken Burns’ PBS series “The ...

Discover the story of Aaron Jerome, Buford’s signalman, at a Civil War Roundtable event in Shippensburg on Nov. 18.

Author Robert Watson provided a short overview about the Civil War during the summer of 1864 and the near invasion of Washington, D.C., by Confederate forces. The National Civil War Museum in ...