A new poll tasked Americans with picking the best time to be alive in U.S. history, and the results are good news for Gen ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

O n May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers ...

Bubba Copeland was the heart and soul of his community—mayor, businessman. When a website exposed his deepest secrets, his life wasn’t the only thing that was destroyed ...

I have been preparing and selling ‘Dr. Taylor’s Celebrated Horse Powders’ for nearly five years,” he wrote in 1878, “and am ...

ALLEGAN, Mich. — Six local soldiers of the Civil War were honored with gravestones in Allegan on Saturday. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Friends of Allegan’s Oakwood ...

Neither Delaware nor Kentucky ended slavery during the Civil War, so some historians estimate there were still around 65,000 enslaved people in 1865. In December 1865, the end of slavery was ...

The supposed corpse was a stage prop, but the tears and wails that greeted it were real. The civil war has killed an estimated 6,500 people, a majority of them civilians, and displaced nearly 1 ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned Israel's recent actions in Syria, accusing the Jewish State of attempting to reignite the Syrian civil war "Israel is trying to provoke certain ...

Infighting has broken out in the Labour Party after a devastating night in the local elections, with the party losing 187 seats. Many have called for change to avoid a Reform takeover at a ...