Rivalries are the lifeblood of college football. But their history is often inextricably intertwined with the history of our ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.

Author Darin Wipperman provides a tantalizing glimpse into the world of Berdan’s sharpshooters during the American Civil War.

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

The first steam engine ship, Diana, was launched on July 12, 1863, and became one of the earliest instances of a ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

The Kings and Generals animated documentary series launches its new chapter on the American Civil War with an in-depth look ...

As a war expert on a CIA panel, UC San Diego political scientist Barbara Walter helped forecast civil wars in other countries ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.