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 ...

Former Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford has spoken about the discontent that marked the former's induction into the ...

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, ...

Some have sprouted brittle tufts of reddish hair and their orb-like stomachs protrude from beneath their filthy clothes – ...

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President Donald Trump has upended three years of U.S. policy toward Ukraine, saying that he and Russian President Vladimir ...

"I have lost this battle because my force was too small. The Government must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result . . . . I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than ...

Rory McIlroy has revealed that he played golf with Donald Trump before his inauguration and claimed the US president is “on the PGA Tour’s side” when it comes to golf’s civil war. In a wide-ranging ...