There was once an American who voted for both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. In this year of the nation’s 250th ...

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

A culture clash driven by finances and Old World alignments had the Big Apple contemplating leaving the Union. The Civil War ...

HTI Hall Trucking Express in Ohio commemorates America's 250th birthday with a specially wrapped trailer depicting key ...

William Henry Seward and his wife, Frances, shared antislavery convictions, but his career imposed great stress on their ...

Welcome to the Trump doctrine of America first and everyone else behind. Under President Trump whatever pretense America used to have of being benign and helpful with the world has now given way to a ...

At eleven, Willie Johnston carried his drum through the Seven Days retreat when others tossed their gear to survive.

Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose "What Hath God Wrought" became a widely acclaimed chronicle of the vast technological and social changes in the U.S. in the first half of ...

There is something deeply sad, almost tragic, about what Rivers State has become in this moment of its political history .

Authorities have identified Stephen Spencer Pittman as the man accused of setting fire to a historic synagogue in Jackson, ...