Welcome to House of History. As I was researching this video, which is about the oldest kiss in the world, I stumbled upon the world record of the longest kiss in the world. Apparently, in 2011 a Thai ...

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

A majority of U.S. citizens believe the country is on the path to a second civil war because of the polarizing nature of ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

Bullet holes from 250 years ago are still visible today at the House in the Horseshoe State Historic Site. They were left ...

Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer, has been posthumously admitted to the New York State Bar. The ...

Burns' new series focuses on pivotal battles and the historical insights from renowned historians and experts.

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary ...

Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of ...

Those who see fit to nullify federal law should take a moment and reread the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt.