Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: ...

The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American Civil War will be sold this month at an auction house in Greenville.

A trip to Gettysburg offers a glimpse into the sacrifices and valor of those who mustered in at Camp Randall and served in ...

The Trump administration’s erasures are a deliberate whitewash of inconvenient American historical truths to create its ...

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

In keeping with tradition, one dramatic beat of the presidential inauguration in January was the Naval Academy Glee Club’s ...

Perched atop a hill at Arlington National Cemetery, the American Tomb of the Unknown Soldier stands quietly, remembering ...