The Vietnam War produced heroes including Chicagoan Milton Olive, but ultimately ended in a chaotic surrender and exit.

As the transatlantic alliance falters, a major exhibition of U.S. photography offers Europeans a dizzying array of ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

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

More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released ...

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

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

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

Vijay Thanigasalam, a member of the Provincial Parliament who fled Sri Lanka during the decades-long civil war when he was a child, authored the bill (archived link). The South Asian island nation ...

His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow ... [email protected] A Trump call with Putin in March and American-led shuttle diplomacy in Saudi Arabia showed the ...

China is raising the stakes in an escalating trade war with the United States. The Asian nation announced it is hiking its tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125%, while the U.S. holds its 145% ...

Donald Trump is trying to use a historic federal civil rights commission to advance his agenda on issues like alleged non-citizen voting, antisemitism on college campuses and transgender women in ...