The United States of America elected its first president in 1789. President Donald Trump was elected as the nation's 47th ...

Born Feb. 14, 1812, Columbus has gone from a simple settlement to Ohio’s largest city in its 213 years. Franklinton, named for Benjamin Franklin, was the first ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Davy Crockett is considered an American folk hero and is commonly associated with his battles during several major wars and … ...

Harrison Rock is an 80-ton glacial boulder located on Ohio 590 south of U.S. 6 in Jackson Township. Sometimes called ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

America’s first armed conflict with a foreign nation following the American Revolution was not the War of 1812, but rather a ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

If President Donald Trump's threat to tariff Canadian imports by 25% goes forward, 200 years of peaceful and profitable Great Lakes maritime trade will be at risk.

A small fence built along the Canada-U.S. border in Delta, B.C., may be violating a long-standing treaty from 1814. The fence was put up earlier this month as a safety precaution, but as Jon Hernandez ...

The War of 1812 was funded through higher duties and excise taxes. The impact of the Civil War created the income tax. The American Civil War incurred a massive amount of debt. To help pay for it ...