A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...

On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin warned Tuesday in a video on social media that the United States is in a "pre-Civil War culture.

The new exhibit includes 15 works by Kara Walker, featuring her signature silhouettes of Black people overlaid on large ...

An appeals court has affirmed the convictions of two men who were accused of leading a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor in ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

A decade after rescuing the NBL, Larry Kestelman is facing off against team owners in a fight led by an American billionaire ...

Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY ... got better treatment” from the United States during World War ...

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

A New York Times reporter and photographer were the first Western journalists to visit central Khartoum since the civil war broke out ... like South Sudan or Chad. American efforts to broker ...