During the final days of the Civil War, something happened that would quietly echo through generations. Today, it connects a ...

The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865, and was a brutal conflict that threatened to tear the country apart. While the Union ultimately prevailed over the Confederacy, the lasting ...

During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt created a tree army. Civilians planted trees, built dams, and transformed ...

It has been 50 years since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Over that time, the relationship between Vietnam and the United ...

When the cause of liberty seemed most fragile, and its defenders most alone, a man named Thomas Paine picked up his pen and ...

Loss of manufacturing jobs is often invoked as a reason for imposing tariffs to “bring those jobs back.” Yet as economists ...

The arrival of the Japanese war brides marked the largest women-only immigration event in U.S. history and by 1960 increased ...

Younger Americans have no reason to be glum about the future — as long as there’s no “nuclear war ... worth of US households, that in time will be passed down to younger generations ...

Sometimes it is difficult for Holocaust survivor Harry Abraham to retell his story, but he is on a life’s mission to not let ...

In stark black-and-white and stunning color, this year's winning photographs capture global events on a human scale ...

For American audiences, the Korean War is often called “the Forgotten War.” But in South Korean cinema, it has never been ...