History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

Georgia's Fort Benning, formerly Fort Moore, is holding a ceremony to rename the military base. Here are bios of the people behind the names - including the two Bennings.

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

1861, to make it the capital of the Confederate States of America. He had set out from the original capital at Montgomery, Alabama, soon after Virginia seceded from the Union six days earlier.

Four of the bloodiest years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor on ...

Southern politicians had warned that they would lead their states out of ... not facilitating their secession from the Union. As a private citizen in Lancaster in 1861, he proclaimed his support ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...