The anniversary comes as Christians worry about the future of Syria following the ouster of longtime president Bashar Assad in December by insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group.

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

This ends McConnell’s decades-long reign of conservative terror that upended years of liberal and progressive policy, ...

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

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

Syria’s future depends on a historic undertaking: facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes in a country ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections,” lashing out after the Ukrainian president said Trump was being influenced by Russian disinformation as he ...

Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

This video covers the historic last Civil War funeral of Confederate Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, whose remains were recovered ...

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...