Among the tens of thousands of books written about the American Civil War, there are dense histories of campaigns, profiles of leaders, compilations of battlefield photos or soldiers’ letters home.

The latest in an intermittent series looking back at groundbreaking, newsmaking, appalling and amusing events in government history. In early April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln made a bold decision ...

Stories from the Civil War never cease to be surprising. Obstacles and hardships seemed to bring out the best in the soldiers. For Charles H. Morgan, obstacles in the form of Confederate prisons never ...

When John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln and leaped from Ford’s Theatre’s presidential box to the stage, he began a 12-day odyssey which took him from Washington, D.C. through Prince ...

Get a team together and challenge yourselves to complete an escape room game in one of Worcester’s most historic buildings. Commandery Quest takes place within what was the site of the Royalist ...