The American Civil War erupted in 1861 with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, followed soon after by the First Battle of Bull Run. This video traces the opening shots of the war, the shockwaves ...

When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter thought up a ruse to make sure it wouldn't be salvaged and used ...

AmericaFest, the first major Turning Point USA conference since the murder of its founder Charlie Kirk, took place in Phoenix ...

Shapiro attacks conservative leaders for not calling out conspiracy theorists; Bannon: Shapiro a 'cancer' who wants US to put Israel's interests first; Kelly: Rift revolves around Israel ...

Associate Professor of Film and Television studies Charlotte Howell joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions ...

The first major gathering of Turning Point USA since the murder of its influential founder was supposed to bring America's ...

As the only president elected to four terms and who saw the country through two of its greatest cataclysms — the Great ...

Over 150 years ago the Lehigh Valley was transforming itself from a rural region to an industrial powerhouse. One of the ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at ...

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

The U.S. Mint unveiled the designs for coins commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence next year. They depict the founding documents and the Revolutionary War, but so far, not ...

Syria registers its first Jewish organization as the Jewish Heritage in Syria Foundation gains official approval to protect sites and coordinate returns.