Harriet Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard on Monday in recognition ...

He began studying law and was admitted to the state bar in 1860. When Arkansas seceded from the Union and the Civil War erupted, Boles, a Unionist, enlisted in the Union Army, eventually rising to the ...

In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

Cabinet-building has long been crucial for both the success of a presidency and for the direction of the United States. From ...

There is only one precedent in US history of a president coming to power twice with an interval in between, as Donald Trump has just done, becoming the 47th president after serving as the 45th. That ...

The Civil War not a month old, Mormon elder Jacob Gates returned to ... overland travel conditions in that 275-mile stretch ...

Several Medal of Honor recipients performed their deeds of heroism before they ever settled in Arkansas. This includes two ...

A quite similar scenario occurred when a Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, when a handful of Democratic ...

There are several famous neighborhoods and squares in Athens with strange names, whose origins even Athenians are unaware of.

The vice presidency seems like a springboard to the presidency, but the majority who ascended owe their promotion to the Grim ...

It’s been like that since I came here,” says Andrew Porter, a writer who has lived in the same rent-controlled apartment ...