Dan Gediman’s new podcast, The Copperhead Conspiracy, looks at how thousands of Northerners conspired with the Confederacy to ...

I first stepped into a former gymnasium near downtown Marion with John Fogleman, who served 26 years as a circuit judge in ...

Discover five affordable towns where American history lives on—from Natchez’s antebellum mansions to Gettysburg’s storied battlefields.

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to the United States. In her newly ...

From the fight for women’s suffrage to opposition to racism, Bamber Bridge’s history reflects a strong commitment to justice.

For the first time in American history, U.S. soldiers would fight under a foreign command. In 93 minutes, they would help win ...

A fraud scandal has made the Somali community in Minnesota a focus of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.

Standing at the Sunken Road, a key battlefield location from the Civil War, Ranger Pete explains why this area became one of ...

Lashed to the bow of the USS Olympia, the Unknown Soldier and his detachment of Marines battled a storm that threatened to ...