In 19th-century America abortion was weaponised as part of a culture war.

Fort Pocahontas is an earthwork fort constructed in 1864 by United States Colored Troops under the command of Gen. Edward A.

From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ...

J. E. B. Stuart wrote from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, to his cousin Bettie Hairston, “A few ...

On May 26, 1954, more than 100 crewmembers of the aircraft carrier USS Bennington died in an explosion off Rhode Island.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights—adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly to set a framework for the ...

From Guatemala to the Isthmus, these former Mexican states have come and gone — but where were they and why did they leave?

Saratoga Race Course, opened in 1864, claims to be the oldest active sporting venue in the U.S. Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness Stakes, opened in 1870. Churchill Downs, while hosting ...