Black History
Black History Month: A Learning Bonanza at izzit.org
February 08, 2021 17:43 ET | izzit.org
ERIE, Pa., Feb. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- izzit.org makes learning about Black history more thought-provoking and engaging with its video-centric The U.S. Constitution & Black History course....
A New Way To Show Your Support to Back The Blue
December 23, 2020 11:38 ET | Osborne Coinage
Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Osborne Coinage has manufactured Made in America minted collectibles since 1835 from their private mint in Cincinnati, Ohio.  With thousands of...
Illinois Holocaust Museum Opens its First Exhibition on Slavery:'Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865'February 10 - August 25, 2019
February 07, 2019 15:11 ET | Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Skokie, IL, Feb. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Purchased Lives, curated by The Historic New Orleans Collection, reveals slavery’s machinations and widespread persistence in America, long after the...
Louis Berger awarded two Gettysburg National Military Park contracts to support rehabilitation and improvement of historic sites in Pennsylvania
July 19, 2018 09:00 ET | Louis Berger
MORRISTOWN, N.J., July 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Louis Berger was recently awarded two contracts supporting the improvement of two historic sites at the Gettysburg National Military Park in...
marriage_certificate_for_george_and_ann_rapier-owensboro_kentucky
Milestones Reached in Freedmen's Bureau Project
December 01, 2015 09:42 ET | FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FamilySearch International, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and the Afro-American Historical and...
Indiana Welcome Center to host Lincoln funeral train
May 27, 2015 11:42 ET | South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority
HAMMOND, Ind., May 27, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A replica of the train that carried President Abraham Lincoln's body across the United States more than 150 years ago will be at the Indiana Welcome...
CampbelltonLanding 003
Fayetteville (NC) Marks 150th Anniversary of the Sherman's Occupation
February 03, 2015 13:50 ET | Fayetteville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Feb. 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In March 1865 General William T. Sherman entered North Carolina and took a direct route to his first objective, the  Fayetteville...
FYW1
Gettysburg College Tradition Brings Attention to Most Famous "Address"
August 29, 2014 15:08 ET | Gettysburg College
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Aug. 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Late August means college students are returning to campuses around the U.S., but at Gettysburg College, there is a tradition that brings attention...
desc
New Online Collection of Civil War Records Released in Observance of Memorial Day
May 22, 2014 10:50 ET | FamilySearch
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, May 22, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In conjunction with Memorial Day, FamilySearch.org announced today significant updates to its free Civil War historic record collections online....
desc
2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Recognizes Guelzo, Johnson and Spielberg
February 12, 2014 08:45 ET | Gettysburg College
GETTYSBURG, PA., Feb. 12, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, which includes an award of $50,000, will go to co-winners Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College, for...