Iran is one of several countries on the list where the FCDO advises against all travel due to ongoing political tensions, ...

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 ...

The Justice Department’s second-in-command demanded that a judge dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric ...

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

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 ...