Explore the rich history of Florida's Civil War forts, from the first shots fired at Fort Pickens to the prison where Dr.

As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for ...

At the start of the Civil War in April 1861, 49-year-old Henry Wilson of Natick, Mass., was serving his sixth year in the U.S. Senate. He had been reelected in 1859 after having first been elected in ...

A Virginia court heard arguments Tuesday over the Digital Gateway project that would border Manassas National Battlefield Park.

America was a house divided over slavery 165 Februarys ago on George Washington’s birthday. On that day, Feb. 22, 1861, in Louisville, two of the city’s most famous newspaper editors climbed on the ...

On a crooked sliver of pavement that slices across Manhattan’s rigid grid, one townhouse signals the change of seasons before ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are debating identity.

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the Civil War, he was not just changing ...

In early 1862, Union generals, soldiers and even the commander in chief of the Civil War were literally at a loss. Morale ran low. Taking the oath of office in March 1861, President Abraham Lincoln of ...

The American Civil War began with tension, but it erupted with cannon fire at Fort Sumter. What followed was the chaotic and shocking Battle of Bull Run, where both sides realized the war would not be ...

Starring Mary-Louise Parker, Daisy Head, Amethyst Davis and Hannah James, the historical drama counts Morgan Freeman and ...