This Fourth of July, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, depicted in this 1819 ...

A longtime Brown University professor who won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing, Wood was name-checked by Matt Damon in the ...

Highlights of this year's event include presentations on Civil War music, the daguerreotype, slavery and the Bible and wartime love letters.

In a career spanning six decades and numerous books, articles and lectures, Wood established himself as the foremost ...

In “The Mission of the War,” America’s incomparable orator helped turn public sentiment in favor of the Union and Abraham ...

Now Black Civil War soldiers are being honored in Arkansas. Called ‘Arkansas’ Heroes,’ a statue was unveiled today at the ...

Some of the fiercest battles took place in South Carolina, but its part in the fight for independence is often overlooked.

The United States is a relatively young country, speaking in the grander scope of things. That said, it is a nation that has been shaped and molded by conflict. Whether it is wars of colonialism and ...

The Civil War left behind more than battlefields and stories. It left unanswered questions, strange reports, missing valuables, and stories that still pull people in. Some feel like a lost-history ...

The new Pentagon website includes 162 declassified files on UFOs, or unidentified aerial phenomena. Some experts wonder if they contain anything new.

Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the project ...

Part of the 1,700 acres recently purchased by Google for a proposed data center campus in Buffalo, Putnam County, is the site of an 1862 Civil War battle, and one local resident is trying to preserve ...