A personal attempt to find peace involves lowering expectations of others, an agenda which decreases disappointment, ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

As the nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of the War for Independence, the contributions of Black patriots are at risk ...

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of ...

Representatives from the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir 55th Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit and Gettysburg National Military Park rangers last week marked possible Civil War artifacts in the field behind th ...

Middle Tennessee saw many skirmishes and battles during the hectic years of the Civil War … and Trousdale County was right in ...

The new Civil War Trails sign on the Eastern Shore dedicates Peter Jacob Carter. The sign’s origins lie with Arthur Carter, ...

The House Divided Project invited Fergus Bordewich, a Civil War historian, to campus to give the annual Wert Lecture on how the extreme division in the country manifests in Congress by focusing on the ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

This is the first in a two-part series on Central America’s history and present, featuring scholars Hilary Goodfriend and ...

In the early 20th century, peasant movements combined a hatred of cities with imaginative blueprints for social and economic ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...