Two authors of books about two important Civil War and Reconstruction congressmen will speak and sign their books at a free ...

What did the Civil War do to railroading? The changes were rapid, profound, lasting, and formed the real basis of truly ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for ...

The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, ...

Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces described the attack as ‘one of the deadliest’ against it in a while. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani raised the country’s new three ...

We categorized 22 of Mr. Trump’s actions, ranging from those that have no comparable historical example to those that do.

Grover Cleveland has been called “the last good Democrat,” “the last Jeffersonian,” and “the last good president from a ...

Had the U.S. simply let the Vietnamese determine their own future 50 years ago, the outcome would have likely been the same, minus the millions of dead.

The Vietnam War ended before most of the current population was born, but like many young people Hoang Ha Linh was swept up ...

At 7:53 a.m., April 30, 1975, the last helicopter lifted off from Saigon, soon to be renamed Ho Chi Minh City, in South ...

From April 30, 1915 State of Minnesota, Executive Department. Proclamation: “I do hereby designate Thursday, the 6th day of May, 1915, as Clean-Up Day. I recommend that mayors, fire marshals and all ...