Joe Foss received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a Marine Corps fighter pilot during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 ...

A move is afoot to have a historical marker erected in honor of a Pottsville man who was among the first volunteers to serve ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing ...

Democrats in America have a long and inglorious history of invoking “states’ rights” and shirking federal law.

What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate ...

The shooting of Alex Pretti on January 24 in the ongoing Minnesota siege has once again foregrounded the deep divisions in ...

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees.

The American Civil War didn’t start suddenly in 1861—it was the result of decades of tension slowly tearing the country apart. As the U.S. expanded westward, every new territory reignited the ...

On view at The Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the exhibition’s shortcomings stem from the scale of ...

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Yet the clash in Minneapolis has revealed a cleavage over the meaning of citizenship and constitutional rights perhaps as profound as the one that split the nation in 1861. The fight, now as it was ...

January 29, 1861. Kansas becomes the 34th state of the United States, entering as a free state just months before the Civil ...