The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

But for two decades in the 1700s, Great Britain controlled the region, and archeologists have finally found some of their ...

If so, the men in the family probably fought at the nearby Civil War battles of Pea Ridge, Wilson’s Creek, Newtonia, Carthage ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

US President Donald Trump has been pushing for an end to the war since taking office in January ... there have been changes not reflected in the maps.

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Willie Johnston joined D Company of the 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment in December 1861 after his father ... a critical position during the Civil War that was responsible for much ...

with more centrist elements attributing this to unpopular stances taken by progressives on culture war issues. A New York Times/Ipsos poll published in January found that 79 percent of Americans ...

as a map shows the latest state of play. It comes amid recent advances by Ukrainian forces near Toretsk and Pokrovsk and concerns about continued United States aid for Kyiv's war effort.