A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...

Globe Opinion asked readers and community members about their American identity. From pride to fear, here are some of the ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

(NEXSTAR) — Within the several hundreds of pages of the megabill the House is expected to pass on Thursday are a $6,000 tax ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...