In the opening chapter of Kings and Generals' Civil War series, we explore the deep-rooted causes behind America’s bloodiest ...

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

The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

Selling over 200 million copies since it was first published in 1859, Charles Dickins’ A Tale of Two Cities is arguably the most famous on this list. The story is divided into three books and set in ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

President Donald Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes was allotted $40 million in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Finding an ink-free service member is infinitely more rare than the alternative, but that is a relatively new phenomenon.

Crusading journalist and an­ti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Bar­nett was a ...

But for reasons unknown, up to 7 feet of riverbed has been scoured away, excavating parts of the 130-foot-long ship not seen since it sank in 1862, according to Nathan Richards, director of the ...

Banking panics that apparently were so regular that they necessitated creating the Federal Reserve in 1913 all stemmed from ...

The community San Basilio de Palenque was founded in the 17th century by escaped enslaved Africans who were led by Benkos ...

"The solution is not returning to some mythical state of pre-Trump administration American equality, but actually understanding and fixing what is broken," argues writer .