During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...

Part genealogy study, part haunting narrative, historian Mary Frances Berry’s new book, “Slavery After Slavery: ...

World War II Pfc. Roland L. Bragg lived in Maine until his 1999 death and is remembered as a hero. He replaces the fort's ...

Donald Trump has speculated on the prospect of a Ukraine-Russia peace deal - as talk over potential negotiations intensifies.

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured despite suffering decades of enslavement and second-class citizenship.

Frustrated that the American Railway Union had refused to accept Black railway workers, which by 1925 had swelled to more that 10,000 porters, Randolph led a push to form the Brotherhood of Sleeping ...

President Trump's repeated claim before he took office, that he could end in just 24 hours the war that Russia launched ... could cut off the vital supply of American weapons.

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over California’s Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startup ...

Alabama served as the first capital of the Confederacy during the initial few months of the US Civil War. After the war, Alabama was among the first of the former Confederate states to enact “Black ...

That approach is much the way the United States dealt—ultimately successfully—with the trials of the Cold War. Based on an assessment of what Moscow and Kyiv could find minimally acceptable ...