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

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.

Maxine Waters says Donald Trump is inciting civil war by implementing inflammatory policies that will be protested by the American people.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

It is fascinating to note that, notwithstanding his antisemitism, Sherman was a great admirer of Rose Eytinge (1835-1911), a Jewish-American actress and author who rose to become one of the most popul ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

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As of 2009, there were NO living recipients of the Medal of Honor from Iraq OR Afghanistan. Then, at a press conference, ...

National Medal of Honor Day Set March 25, Brevard's Emory Bennett Awarded Medal for Valor During the Korean War ...