What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

Representatives from the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir 55th Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit and Gettysburg National Military Park rangers last week marked possible Civil War artifacts in the field behind th ...

April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty.

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

The Trump administration said she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” Her friends and lawyers say all she did was co ...

At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...

But one item went a little farther back: a snippet of a receipt that may have been hand-written and signed by a prominent ...