"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.

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

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

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 ...