Fort Gates, a key 1849 U.S. Army outpost in Texas, illustrates the complexities of frontier defense and settlement ...

We wrote and submitted the report published below, “Our Fragile Democracy: Political Violence, White Supremacy, and ...

Confederate forces burned Pinhook Bridge twice in 1863 during two separate Civil War battles in Lafayette. Today, most ...

By late March of 1953, the Korean War remained mostly static as peace negotiations went back and forth. U.N. and communist ...

On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical ...

A quarter of a millennium ago, “Swamp Fox” Francis Marion took on the British empire with a rag-tag group of part-time ...

The soldiers probably did not have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads as they shivered around the campfire at Fort Ward in December 1861 in Alexandria, Virginia, always on the alert for the ...

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For more than a century, the Ionia County Courthouse has been home to a piece of American Civil War history — a battle flag sewn by local women and carried by men who formed a volunteer Union regiment ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

A sign bearing Master Sgt. Gary Gordon's name is unveiled during a post dedication ceremony at the Georgia base. (Stephen Barlow/Army) Nearly 32 years have passed since Master Sgt. Gary I. Gordon ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division ...