What happened was after the war we had a bloated military, and no government had the guts to start a national discussion ...

He appeared to be urging it to press the militant group, a close ally of Iran, to agree to a deal that could require it to pull back from the Israel-Lebanon border.

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

President-elect Trump's picks for a second administration are overwhelmingly white with a history of trafficking in racism.

Nearly 40,000 Kansas Citians packed the banks of the Missouri River to celebrate the completion of the first railroad bridge ...

A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II ...

Preparing for the SC250, an archeological dig looks for evidence of a British encampment near the childhood home of South ...

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben ...

1 of 7 | A bust of Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman can be seen between the vaults at Grant's Tomb in New York City.

Trump says he will sign an executive order ending automatic citizenship for children of “illegal aliens” in his second term.

Trump's bid to take money from schools that teach "critical race theory" or pass policies for transgender kids raises legal complexities.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will kick off a fundraising campaign on Thursday ...