Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The new season also presents a look into the life of jazz singer Doris Hines and a debate between two Minnesota-born judges.

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Fifty years ago on April 13th, the Lebanese Civil War began. On that day, Palm Sunday, Palestinian terrorists shot up a ...

South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...

Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...

West Virginia is chock full of history, not the least of which is this local watering hole built where two U.S. presidents ...

The Fano insurgency is taking place in a territory three times the size of Tigray, stretching the army’s resources.

COMMENT: The comedian’s campervan trip to North America in search of places named after his home city proves that ...