Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

Bette Davis won an Academy Award for Jezebel, a film that came out years before Gone With the Wind, but is still compared to ...

Travis and Maria Summers had been smelling the faint and sickly sweet odor of gas around their antebellum home in Lexington, Missouri, for hours on Wednesday afternoon when, around 7:30 p.m., Maria ...

Charlie Shelton-Ormond: total they were 1500 reenactors. It was actually mostly split even between Confederate and Union and 1500 is a large number, but that's actually nothing compared to the actual ...

When it ended in 1971, it was because then US President Richard Nixon, unilaterally deemed it so. The post-World War II era ushered in a dramatic shift in US foreign policy, driven by the ‘Grand Area’ ...

James Corden is "at war with his neighbours" ahead of his move ... from both the local council as well as English Heritage before it was finally given the green light. The operation is monumental ...

The Japanese yen was 0.3 per cent stronger at 149.50 per US dollar on Tuesday. The yen rose nearly 5 per cent against the dollar in the January-March period on growing bets that the Bank of Japan (BOJ ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II ... lauded for removing restrictions on each years before the rest of the United States. It has also been a leader in celebrating its multicultural ...

Haaland was in obvious pain and received treatment on the pitch before limping off and being replaced by January signing Omar Marmoush, who went on to score the winning goal that teed up a last ...

“This kind of complete collection — 1,200 items and letters that snap-shotted the Civil War period, is amazing ... Bell unearthed were written long before or long after the war.