When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

A T-shirt worn by Beyoncé during a Juneteenth performance on her “Cowboy Carter” tour has sparked a discussion over how ...

This historic survival meal was given to soldiers during the American Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that.

A painting by Ismani Sun, a San Antonio artist, will be on prominent display at the African American Civil War Memorial Museum when it opens at its new location in Washington D.C.

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War. Ken ... D.C. and so I realized this was the central event in American history ... old pictures. With the ...

Letter by General U.S. Grant (1862), American Civil War, facsimile Letter by General Ulysses S. Grant with the demand "unconditional surrender" to General Simon Bolivar Buckner during the Battle of ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

While sweeping the grounds of Gettysburg National Military Park as part of a rehabilitation project, an archaeologist ...

At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions ...

The war in Gaza erupted 20 months ago after Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, taking 251 hostages and killing 1,200 people, most of them civilians, according to Israeli tallies, on ...