In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E ...

In 1428, during the Siege of Orléans, French and English forces stopped fighting their Hundred Years’ War to celebrate ...

Tennessee teen Dixie Remp got bullied and mocked so badly for her first name — linked to the Confederacy, slavery and the ...

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing earlier this year in June, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) pressed Defense ...

How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

When you first think of Paducah, Kentucky, it might not seem like the type of place to make a travel bucket list. But this ...

More than 20 dozen cats and dogs got new homes over the holidays in a Charleston Animal Society (CAS) adoption campaign that ...

The young United States marched west, confident of victory. At the Wabash, Native warriors united and delivered the republic ...

As voters clamor for change, a new generation of Pelosis, Kennedys, Kings and other powerful families are stepping up to keep their political legacies alive.

Farmers say the $12 billion federal bridge assistance program is helping, but only enough to catch up, not to get ahead. “It ...

The Charleston County School District had requested Lee’s marker be removed in 2021, which spurred a legal battle with the ...

The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War officially ended exactly 160 years ago, with the last shot fired June 22, 1865.