Capt. A. T. Mahan of the United States Navy is preparing for publication in Scribner's Magazine for next year some articles on "The War of 1812." The series, it is said, will run through the year.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump read most of his Independence Day speech from a prepared text, but stumbled on his history ... place during the War of 1812, not the American Revolution.

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In addition to her volunteer job running a World War II museum in Thimister ... polarizing moment in U.S. history. “This is a bigger story than one American president, or two American presidents ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year ...

Francis, history’s first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent. He sent Prevost to take over a complicated diocese in Peru ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished ... Even the matter of when the war began is still debated. In the American telling, it started in earnest when the United States entered the ...

Pakistan has promised a “measured but forceful response,” threatening a wider war endangering everyone ... are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

Pope Leo XIV said, “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.” Watch his full address in the video player above. From the ...

Numbers have accompanied humankind throughout history. The oldest documents record them. Trade cannot be conducted without them, and they are needed to measure land or record a recipe for beer.