Sure, he could have just bagged it all, could have slipped into a nice, comfy life of semi-retirement. Lord knows Ken Hitchcock had already given enough of his life to hockey.
Walking through a hushed cemetery at night with only a flashlight to guide your way can be a stirring experience for amateur ghost hunters this Halloween.
Sarah Palin is going rogue again. Want to cover the potential Republican presidential candidate? Better bring your running shoes.
Is Sarah Palin's bus tour a prelude to a campaign for the White House? CNN's Jim Acosta reports.
An interest in history led Terry Hancock to the world of civil war reenacting, and introduced him to his future wife.
Time flies when you're having fun on holiday, right? Well, maybe it shouldn't.
Beneath a hand-stitched Confederate flag, Terry Hancock prepared for battle.
Ninety-five acres of farm land where young men in blue and gray fought and died during the epic Civil War battle is being added to Gettysburg National Military Park, federal officials said.
A Pennsylvania wildlife officer investigating possible poaching was killed during an exchange of gunfire after making a traffic stop late Thursday, authorities said.
No offense to the nation's capital, but the landmarks of our heritage extend far beyond the District of Columbia.
South Korean and American warships stopped a suspected pirate attack on an Egyptian ship in the Gulf of Aden, capturing 17 suspected pirates, the U.S. Navy announced Thursday.
U.S. naval forces hunting pirates off Somalia detained six people this week who appeared to be pursuing a commercial shipping vessel, but soon released them because of a lack of evidence.
Development threatens to engulf Civil War battlefields, a preservationist group said as it released its annual list of endangered battle sites on Wednesday.
The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum will close in April for a five-month, $10 million renovation, Carter told reporters and dozens of Atlanta-area schoolchildren Thursday.
For five generations, the Meserve/Kunhardt family has been the collector and custodian of some of the most valuable photographs and memorabilia of Abraham Lincoln.
Barack Obama, who shot from obscurity to fame based on a single speech and then captured the White House in a campaign marked by soaring rhetoric, delivered a restrained, sober inaugural address Tuesday.
Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and the nation's first African-American president Tuesday. This is a transcript of his prepared speech.
President-elect Barack Obama, who in 10 days will be sworn in using the Bible of his political hero Abraham Lincoln, visited the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday night with his family.
It may be freezing in Washington in January, but the city is a red-hot destination for people around the country and the world eager to see President-elect Barack Obama sworn into office.
The development of a Revolution Center in Valley Forge National Historical Park provokes vigorous opposition from preservationists and local residents
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I should begin with a disclaimer: I'm not that guy.
Dozens of relatives who lost loved ones in the September 11, 2001, attacks are protesting plans for cultural institutions on the World Trade Center site, particularly the International Freedom Center that some families fear will detract from a 9/11 memorial.
As the Civil War made a rare foray into the North, residents of the small southern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg buzzed with excitement in summer 1863 and jockeyed for the best vista to watch the approaching Confederate and Union armies.
The explosion of violence in Iraq has temporarily shifted the issue of "nation-building" off the front page. It has replaced that issue, instead, with the more pressing question of whether Iraq can be saved from utter chaos.
Media mogul Ted Turner was awarded a star Wednesday on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Let's be blunt: in the hands of most executives, the Gettysburg Address would sound about as inspiring as a laundry list. But don't take it personally. Dozens of land mines await even the best-prep...
--July 5-7: Annual Gettysburg Reenactment Some people celebrate our nation's birthday by grilling burgers. Others like to put on heavy wool uniforms and recreate the hell of war. In the event Getty...
Greg Shierling is every inch a pillar of the community in the all-American city of Quincy, Ill. The franchisee of two McDonald's, he has tutored a legion of the town's teens in the art of business,...
Everybody's got a list. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a list. Santa has a list. FORTUNE has several lists. And now the American Management Association has one: the 75 Greatest...
The stories you are about to read are true. The taxpayers in the following anecdotes saved themselves money--and misery--by forming good relationships with their C.P.A.s and heeding their pros' adv...
Old soldiers don't die. They just become executive development workshop leaders. Retired Army chief of staff General Gordon Sullivan, co-author of a new book, Hope Is Not a Method (Times Books, $25...
MAYBE THE GETTYSBURG Address would not have been any better had Lincoln written it on a laptop. But if today's crop of federal Websites had existed back in '63, Abe would have had access to a lot o...
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The kind of greeting card beloved of fat old ladies--cards that start "To a special nephew" and then devolve into a dozen lines of sentiment--are passa. Their industrial kin, however, are hot, hot,...
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For six months it has been war, Gettysburg style. Rising interest rates decimated bond buyers and bondholders on every flank, leaving no place to hide, not in munis or junk or even emerging markets...
Attention, President Bush. Though you recently professed astonishment at the bar-code technology that has been a fixture of supermarket checkout counters for nearly two decades, look what's coming ...
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