Increasingly, as the nation's politics have polarized, public health has become a way of asserting political priorities, giving public health the appearance that it is a matter of ideology and not ...

This narrative explores the Battle of Gettysburg as one of history’s defining turning points, tracing the conflict from the strategic movements that preceded it to the brutal, chaotic fighting across ...

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against ...

In his new documentary series “The American Revolution,” the prolific filmmaker depicts a nation created by violence. Still, ...

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...

Author Robert Watson provided a short overview about the Civil War during the summer of 1864 and the near invasion of Washington, D.C., by Confederate forces. The National Civil War Museum in ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION  Premieres Sunday, November 16 at 8:00 pm A new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores ...

TRUMP’S FIELD TEST: When Trump dropped by the Commanders-Lions game yesterday afternoon, he became the first president to ...

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

The Cook analysis shows nine Democrats in tossup races too close to call. Four are likely to see their districts altered — California Reps. Adam Gray of Merced and Derek Tran of Cypress, who would ...

Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights the causes, the major battles, and the outcome of the American Civil War — ...