The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

From three Western directors, How the West Was Won is a five-segment masterpiece about a frontier family experiencing key ...

Over the past 140 years, as corporate America moved toward accounting transparency, the federal government manages its budget in ways that let ...

Howard Lambert, the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these stories to life.

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often ...

Defence Secretary John Healey will be urged to intervene in the war medals row that could see gallantry gongs shipped to Australia. The Lord Ashcroft Gallery, home 230 Victoria Crosses and a ...

became a flashpoint in the Civil Rights Movement. Bloody Sunday, as the event became known, was broadcast across the nation as police attacked and beat protestors. At the time, John Reynolds was ...

The BBC accompanies the civil defence group as they respond to violence in Syria's coastal region. Many belong to former President Bashar al-Assad's sect, which was targeted in mass killings.

For a short time, not long after the conclusion of the Civil War, the nation’s capital ... of the District of Columbia,” Sen. John Tyler Morgan, an Alabama Democrat and enslaver, said in ...

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge marching from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. Alabama state ...

Nigel Farage hit back at Rupert Lowe as Reform UK descended into civil war today. He insisted Reform is not a "protest party" and swiped that Mr Lowe would not have had a "cat's chance in hell" of ...