While most remember the land battles of the American Civil War, the conflict at sea played a crucial role. In this animated ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

“This is going to be a showpiece, top of the list certainly, for Civil War collectors.” The donation was announced Saturday, during the ... raising episodes in American history.

Two Republican congressmen were expected to meet the country’s new leaders and to visit areas destroyed during ... 14-year civil war. Image Mr. Mills and other members of the American delegation ...

Called A Chart of the Cruises of the USS Yorktown, the mural consists of a world map showing all the places ... still had a bomb attached to it. During World War II, the Navy used the aircraft ...

But there are good people that can resuscitate it. But they don’t want it to be me,” he said during a floor speech Thursday. As the mad dash to fill his shoes as leader of the state Senate ...