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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

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

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

Ivy League professor father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani linked Hitler's Holocaust to Abraham Lincoln during comments at a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society.