In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America's furious and fractious politics

Recently the U.S. marked the 160th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. The death toll was put at about 750,000 soldiers, including those who died from accident, disease and starvation. Most civil wars do not spring up overnight, and the American Civil War was no exception. After so many years this conflict continues to matter, America’s wounds have yet to heal and the nation is again divided between people who want a multiracial democracy in which every American is allowed ... https://balticword.com/new-u-s-civil-war-as-a-security-threat-for-the-baltic-region/

Los Angeles officials have announced an effort to return the valuable Manhattan Beach property to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce

Lisa Napoli’s “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie” follows four reporters who helped make the scrappy nonprofit into an American institution.

Only 20 years — to the day — after the first human ventured to space, Columbia became the first reusable space shuttle to take humans into orbit.

Discovery may explain escape of Capt Henry Every after murderous raid on Indian emperor’s ship

In the fall of 1853 Salvador de Castro Jr., a leading Cuban slave trader, traveled to Manhattan to arrange an expedition to West Central Africa

“The masher’s chief peculiarity is a profound faith in his dominion over the other sex.”Today—almost 150 years later—we’re realizing that the ...

As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attention is being paid to the often overlooked southbound route.

The CIA tried to fight communism by dosing unwitting soldiers and prisoners with acid. ON APRIL 10, 1953, ALLEN DULLES, THE NEWLY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE CIA, delivered a speech to a gathering of Princeton alumni. Though the event was mundane, global tensions were running high. The Korean War was coming to an end, and earlier that week, The New York Times had published a startling story asserting that American POWs returning from the country may have been “converted” by “Communist brain-washers.”

After the Civil War, Henrietta Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who’d kidnapped her back into slavery. Yet the story was lost to her own family.

There was a time when the Victorian facade was a prevalent status symbol in the United States.

Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.

When radio was king, many outlets chose to cease broadcasting Father Charles Coughlin's anti-Semitic sermons

In the past few days, I’ve seen all kinds of statements from Christian leaders trying to distance themselves from the violent mob at the Capitol. Christian writers known for their thoughtfulness lament that “somehow” white supremacy has crept into our churches, and the faculty of a major evangelical institution put out a manifesto saying that the events at the Capitol “bear absolutely no resemblance to” the Christianity they teach. That mob, they’re telling us, is a fringe element. They’ve radically misunderstood the real message of American Christianity.

Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.

Until 2021, Americans had confronted federal authority with armed aggression just four times.

His exhaustive coverage of the Vietnam War also led to the book “A Bright Shining Lie,” which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

Since the US presidential election on November 3 2020, Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the result and deny president-elect Joe Biden his victory have grown ever more desperate. Most recently a recording of a phone call to the secretary of the state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, on January 2, has revealed that Trump pressured Raffensperger to “find” more than 11,000 votes to tip the state’s result his way.

The public website draws connections between existing datasets to piece together fragmentary narratives