Gettysburg

America’s history is full of both bravery and bloodshed, noble ideas and flawed men. One of the places that seems to show this so clearly is Gettysburg National Battlefield.

“I like ... taking something that hasn’t worked for 150 years and bringing it back to life,” says horologist Jim Michaels.

Larry Clowers came to play Ulysses S. Grant practically by accident—or perhaps fate.

As the Library of Congress exhibits Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address, the significance of the commemoration is taking shape.