He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...

Terrorism experts Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware use historical and recent facts to try and answer that question.

Samuel Truehart was a private in the 5th United States Cavalry ... reference this map, overlay it on modern aerial photography, and see roughly where we think that Civil War mound is.

Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.

Even by the era of the Civil War, the idea of deep time had spread to institutions and people across the United States–to colleges, natural history collections, private letters, scientific journals, ...

America has always been “blessed” with predictions of doom and despair before and after every presidential election, but in recent years we have gone Category Five with forecasts of a Civil War II.

Founded during the chaos of the fifteen-year Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), the Iran ... Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and many other countries, and ...

Three well-armed militias launched a surprise joint offensive in northeastern Myanmar a year ago, breaking a strategic ...