Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

The International Context, a new digital archive that demonstrates the far-reaching involvement of European nations in the ...

Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes ...

Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series with a new focus on the American Civil War. This ...

Sudan's civil war is starving millions of civilians, who rely largely on foreign aid that has come from the U.S. more than ...

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

Sudan’s army is edging closer to recapturing the country’s capital Khartoum in what allies of its leader General Abdel Fattah ...

It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...

The top officials for enforcement and supervision at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday they had ...

Since taking office about three weeks ago, Donald Trump has issued a blizzard of 200+ executive orders. Among them are two ...