Drawing his title from Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech, independent scholar Hyslop, author of several works on the American West, makes the case that in opening territories to slavery, westward ...

A Civil War prison camp operated along the Chemung River in Elmira between July 1864 and July 1865, and nearly 3,000 of the 12,000 Confederate soldiers incarcerated there died. A group known as ...

Two of the remaining pre-Civil War buildings in Buffalo are now local landmarks. And much of the thanks goes to the owner of the property located at 224 Plymouth. “This is a landmarking that basically ...