The GAR Building "was so loved" that when restoration began, "people literally came out of the woodwork” with artifacts from the Civil War.

The debate over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp” is not about language or facts. It is about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history. By Masha Gessen.

Before we retaliate over drone and oil tanker attacks, take a look at all the times we've been duped. By Robert W. Merry.

In June 1969, a fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River—the last in a series of big blazes spanning decades—spurred the government to make sweeping environmental changes that altered the course of the country. By Vince Guerrieri.

Juneteenth isn’t the "other" Independence Day, it is the Independence Day. By Jameelah Nasheed.

Mary Bowser risked execution to infiltrate Jefferson Davis’s Richmond household. But she was never caught.

The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.

While not a 100% quack,nonetheless, Dr. Kellogg engaged in some rather questionable medical practices.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War

The U.S. Treasury will not introduce a redesigned $20 bill picturing escaped slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman next year as planned By Makini Brice.

Sharpshooters wore camo and hefted state-of-the-art rifles with longer, flatter trajectory 

The officer stood over the freshly exhumed grave with a pencil and ledger in his hands. He told others to search the remains as he struggled to decipher the crude etching on a weath…

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism… By Angelo Guisado.

It would be two years before the first armed American destroyers sailed for Europe. By Joanna Scutts.

Against the odds, historian Christy Coleman merged two Richmond institutions, forging a new approach to reconciling with the nation's bloody past

Historians have long debated Lee’s place in American history, and that battle continues today.

Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains

A monument at West Point can help Americans rediscover a leader whose moral example is much needed today.

In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time. By Keri Leigh Merritt.

In a revelatory trilogy, Professor Davis, called “one of the most influential historians of his generation,” placed slavery at the center of American history.