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

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

"The Harper Center will be a state-of-the art visitor facility and will allow ... at least the 200th anniversary of the American Civil War." For more information about the Tennessee Historical ...

The painting depicts scenes from Virgil's epic Latin poem the Aeneid Tate Britain is set to return a 17th Century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector, after it was taken from ...

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

The painting depicts the Trojan hero Aeneas trying to rescue his family from the burning city. It was produced in the wake of the English Civil War, when scenes of devastation ... according to figures ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Peter Wolf's book 'Waiting on the Moon' includes a fascinating chapter about Bob Dylan's early days in New York — Wolf took us on a tour of landmarks.

Relief, hope and joy at new openings — after 53 years of the Assad dynasty’s reign, prolonged civil war and crushing economic woes ... She wants her country to be rebuilt and to get rid of Assad-era ...

Ward, The American Revolution, out Nov. 11 from Knopf, will bring together artifacts from the era alongside essays ... Enslaved Blacks 100 Years Before Civil War. Was He Lying?

He made the Army-Navy rivalry a riveting topic in A Civil War. He did the same with the Patriot ... an increasingly scarce quality in an era where information is often traded for positive publicity.