America is called a melting pot – and that’s certainly true of its food. The USA’s culinary history is that of reinvention. Waves of food influences – Native, African, British, continental European, ...

Florida's Republican governor and attorney general are locked in a power struggle as the state's primary elections approach, ...

Amos T. Akerman was a curious case to become President Ulysses S. Grant's attorney general, as depicted in Guy Gugliotta’s ...

The slaves had come to San Bernardino in 1852 with their owner, Robert Smith, part of the Mormon founding of the community.

Lt. Col. Pete Ellis’ “Operations Plan 712” was an extraordinary and prescient report—serving as the basis for what became the American amphibious juggernaut of World War II.

New scholarship shows that Abraham Lincoln was a deeply sensitive man who embraced radical acts of inclusion to keep the ...

Two generations of the Borden family left a large and lasting imprint on the development of the early Milton community, ...

After a long historic journey across the country, old Civil War artifacts that predate 1860, have made their way to Wisconsin ...

Jerome Palmer of Hinkletown, who drew undiscovered sketches during the Civil War, enlisted in the Iowa Infantry to fight on behalf of the Union.