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

Join us on a special visit to the historic Galena, Illinois home of Ulysses S. Grant—Civil War general and 18th President of the United States. This well-preserved house reveals the private life of ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

As a general he had fought to preserve the Union As president he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation As a former president he was the embodiment of the very idea of national ...

Donald Trump plans a massive military parade in Washington, DC, reviving a controversial idea that critics view as authoritarian, despite America’s long tradition of grand military displays and ...

Applebaum: Presumably, the body that would be responsible for enforcing, you know, corruption laws against the president is ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to ...