Beware of myth as we approach the nation's 250th year. The true threat to America has always been a white supremacist ...

Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events and tensions from 1819 to 1861. Uncover how decades of political conflict, ...

HAMPTON TWP, ALLEGHENY CO. — Even after 25 years, the Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Round Table is still able to find new topics to discuss every month, most recently tackling “The department of the ...

A brilliant college essay topic doesn’t just showcase intelligence — it reveals personality, curiosity, humor, resilience, or the wonderfully weird way someone sees the world. Over the years, certain ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A butterfly materialized from central casting during the morning ceremony. Credit: Photos by Andy ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...

At a press conference on October 21, House Speaker Mike Johnson — appearing in his usual mien: bespectacled, boyishly coiffed, and vaguely offended, like a ninth-grader confronted with a pop quiz on ...

Today, we celebrate the 238th anniversary of the publication of the very first essay in The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist No. 1 from Oct. 27, 1787, marks the start of a seminal ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

TL;DR: Ubisoft cancelled a planned Assassin's Creed game set during the Reconstruction Era due to socio-political sensitivities and backlash from previous titles. The game would have featured a freed ...

The game was meant to take place during the Reconstruction era, and would have featured a Black assassin confronting the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...