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 Richlands, Civil War History Center Educational director, Dr. Michael McElreath and history professors from Appalachian ...

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

In 1940 the first Civil War Roundtable was founded in Chicago. The Lehigh Valley’s is named the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania. Since that time their numbers have waxed ...

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

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on 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, ...