What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate ...

The shooting of Alex Pretti on January 24 in the ongoing Minnesota siege has once again foregrounded the deep divisions in ...

A new exhibit at the History Colorado Center uncovers how 137 Black men, advocating for their voting rights in the 1860s, ...

From Civil War hangings to presidential visits and quirky courthouse tales, explore 175 years of drama, justice and survival at Cape Girardeau's Common Pleas Courthouse.

Against that backdrop, from MAGA’s viewpoint, the rest of the country’s response to the deaths of Good and Pretti looks a lot like the North’s response to the execution of John Brown. Good and Pretti ...

Minnesota residents have been protesting for several weeks against the deployment of ICE in the state. Among them, some want ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago this Fourth of July, our Founding Fathers stood in Philadelphia − less than an hour and a ...

On June 17, 1863, Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was forced to watch his men get slaughtered near the village of Aldie, Virginia. Just hours earlier, his superior officer had placed him under arrest for ...

William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...

African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2012, 264 pp., $30.54 ...

Whenever tragedy strikes in the United States—through bombings, mass shootings, or the killing of American citizens by law ...

(RNS) — In 1857, when Latter-day Saints deemed actions emanating from Washington, DC, to be significant breaches of ...