While early American soldiers took inspiration from European armies for their uniforms — typically more formal — a wave of ...

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

While we can’t definitively say Abraham Lincoln was gay, we’re pretty certain he shared his bed with men on multiple ...