"Congress has the authority to suspend habeas corpus. Not Stephen Miller, not the president," election law attorney Marc ...

One hundred sixty years ago, at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Ulysses S. Grant was looking for some kind of breakthrough against ...

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

As part of the Friends of Spring Hill Cemetery Park and Arboretum's monthly Sunday Saunter history walk series, the group has ...

Much of the history of the United States is told through the stories of white men. Not so in Canton, where the nation’s first ...

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

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

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

It won’t surprise anyone to learn that American politicians have long been suspected of being untrustworthy, and at worst, ...

April marked 160 years since the major combat operations of the Civil War ended. The major Confederate armies surrendered — ...

Unpacking the logic of from's National Garden of American Heroes honoring figures from Christopher Columbus to Whitney ...

Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was under orders to locate a Sioux encampment in Montana Territory and wait for ...