Seven Democrats voted with Republicans to end the government shutdown, but others have spoken out against the decision, ...

A failed influencer and proto fanboy, Charles Guiteau went from stalking President James Garfield to shooting him in a train ...

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

This visual journey maps every major front, campaign, and turning point of the Civil War using detailed Google Earth ...

The Senate took the first step Sunday night to end the longest government shutdown in US history, voting to end debate on a ...

In the next 56 minutes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the Civil War, slavery, and of Frederick Douglas, offered a ...

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, ...

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the ...

The same failures to protect the rights of Japanese Americans and safeguard American civil liberties are happening again ...

But either way – responding to crisis or finding a public change of heart – is a reminder that voters are the ultimate arbiters in a functioning democracy. Today, as in late-19th-century America, ...

What does the GOP need to do to frame who is really at fault for the longest US Government shutdown in history?

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...