Many of Lima’s 2,000 citizens were in church that sunny Sunday morning in April 1861 when the excited talk of war on the ...

The astronomer Edmond Halley, the namesake for Halley’s comet, linked the northern lights to the Earth’s magnetic field, setting off research into the science behind them. He expected to die without ...

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

Whatever the term, historians largely agree: The United States was born out of protest 250 years ago and has been propelled ...