The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will present “Cheers! The Spirited History of Alcohol in Colonial Virginia,” a special program in the Talking History Series on Thursday evening, April 24.

Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The ...

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

Universal Images Group/ O n March 27, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order, insisting that our history must ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

A judge in Texas temporarily barred the U.S. government Wednesday from deporting three Venezuelan men under a rarely-invoked law that gives the president the power to ...

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...

The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American ...

The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American Civil War will be sold this month at an auction house in Greenville.

Thousands joined the Hands Off rally in Richmond 2025 to protest Trump and DOGE policies threatening Social Security, ...