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.

Texas is one of the few states that were once independent countries, and is quite proud of that. But just 16 years after ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

The crisis unfolding in Afghanistan today is not just a repetition of history. It is an amplified version, with even fewer ...

Many of those impacted say they had already accepted the administration’s deferred resignation offer, under which they were ...

But Claire McCardell was a pioneering outlier. From the 1930s to the 1950s this designer found freedom creating affordable, ...

Captain America became a household name over the past decade, but he has a history that stretches back before that.

China is rehearsing for war, U.S. Indo-Pacific commander says. Navy Adm. Sam Paparo used sharper words than usual to describe ...

Trump's economic agenda, such that he has one, has been subordinated to his broad — and radical — racial agenda.

Thousands gathered in Beirut Friday to mark 20 years since the assassination of ex-premier Rafic Hariri, and to call for the ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

The new Trump administration’s stormy rhetoric on immigration as well as highly publicized ICE arrests have provoked fear and confusion in DC’s immigrant communities. Enforcement has become more ...