The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Efforts are underway to include the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home on the Civil War Trails as it expands into southwestern ...

The super deluxe edition of Yes's Close To The Edge is released on March 7. Bill Bruford's current band, the Pete Roth Trio, ...

This video covers the historic last Civil War funeral of Confederate Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, whose remains were recovered ...

In north-west Syria, more than 700 abandoned Byzantine settlements called Dead Cities, stretch across rocky hills and plains, their weathered limestone ruins featuring remnants of stone houses, ...

U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, has said that only Jesus has been written about more than our 16th president over the past 165 years. As a result, ...

On a dirt runway in Sudan’s Nuba mountains, women sift through sand searching for small nuggets of grain. Earlier, hundreds ...