Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

Danielle Sassoon can’t be dismissed as some kind of liberal deep-stater. Her résumé suggests anything but: registered ...

The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series continues with a new installment on the American Civil War, following their coverage of the American Revolution. The setup episode explores ...

Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series continues with a new series on the American Civil War, following their coverage of the American Revolution. The setup episode explores why ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

President Andrew Johnson signed the first official Department of Education into law. Although it was not a cabinet level ...

This has been a dizzying and disorienting week in international diplomacy. One with wild implications for Ukraine, the future ...

Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency's second da ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United ...