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Panelists talked about the effects of over 700,000 Civil War deaths on the United States population in the mid-19th century. The United States lost about 2% of its population as a result of …

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson, and others spoke at an event commemorating the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and…

Kent Masterson Brown spoke about the Battle of Gettysburg, which took place July 1-3, 1863, and is considered the bloodiest battle ever on U.S. soil. He talked about how and why the battle b…

Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, delivered the keynote address at the “New Birth of Freedom” Commemorative Ceremony at Gettysburg Nati…

First ladies Michelle Obama and Laura Bush were the keynote speakers at a ceremony honoring those who died on Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. The ceremony at the future site of the Flight 9…

A ceremony commemorating Flight 93 on the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001 was held at a memorial site on Skyline Road in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, near where United Airlines Flight …

The National Park Service announced that “Circle of Embrace,” designed by Paul Murdoch Architcts with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, would be built as the permanent memorial for Fli…