My grandparents, Nathan and Domenica Borga DePauli, had a farmette on the Route 61 side of Lawton’s Hill until after World War II. In fact, their house was demolished to make way for the new Route ...

Harrington & Richardson chose to celebrate its 100th anniversary—along with the company’s heritage of building firearms for ...

1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first Black mayor. Washington, a U.S. representative who also served in the ...

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the ...

On April 12, 1975, the U.S. military evacuated Americans from the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as part of Operation ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a ...

April 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1861, the Civil War began when Confederate troops ... denied Iraq had any weapons of mass destruction and surrendered to U.S. forces.

To fill in the gaps in Nelson Shephard’s biography, Lynch enlisted the help of Steve Kochersperger, a USPS research analyst with a personal stake in the Civil War. An ancestor, Lt. Col.

The city of St. Louis and the leader of its city council filed a federal lawsuit Monday against a new Missouri law putting a ...

A curiosity, yes, but to the surprise of many Civil ... the war; they were not nurses, or laundresses or cooks, but actual female soldiers disguised as men, who marched, mastered their weapons ...