Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes Revolutionary War pension files and Civil War documents.

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

The Times has obtained a list of 53 Venezuelan men the Trump administration has put in a wartime prison built to hold Al ...

Pete Hegseth has spent much of his first weeks in office focused on culture wars while saying little about America’s ...

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

Because of its religious diversity and bloody history during the civil war, the city is considered a test case for the new ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had referred to Fort Benning and Fort Bragg by their original, Confederate-inspired names.

The Manipur chief minister has finally stepped down. Could he have handled the ethnic strife and bloodshed in the state since ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal office that enforces civil rights at schools across the U.S. has been ordered to prioritize ...