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

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: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

For four decades he has captured the stories of people and places from significant events such as The Holocaust and the Civil War. Burns was ... “The American Revolution,” just in time for ...

With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, author and former editor of The American Conservative ... college victory can come across as ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was ... prove vital in the North’s victory. Coffee replaced tea as the U.S. drink of choice around the time of the American Revolution.

This is the third in a series on The Athletic looking back at the winners of each World Cup, from Uruguay in 1930 through to ...

has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle. Such exploits made for thrilling ...

It is unlikely that armies have fared any better throughout history without proper sanitation and waste management. Consider, ...