In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Jerry Bruckheimer has announced a Crimson Tide sequel is in the works, but will Denzel Washington return? Read on for more.

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Washington native James Smallwood had had the old musket of another era for several years, as it had been passed down through his family. He knew that it had ...

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and despite the threats to democracy, it resonates more than ever. At this moment of deep political division, bold ideas ...

James Carville wants the Democratic Party of old to return. But David Hogg, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, wants the opposite.

Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion used a noise complaint hypothetical to justify letting Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional citizenship order blare on for everyone except the specific plaintiffs ...

History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley once said. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War. As soon as the Confederates laid down their arms, some ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry.Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

Wisconsin’s high court hears case set to decide state’s abortion rights. At issue is a pre-Civil War law that would completely bar the procedure, with no exceptions for incest, rape or to save ...