So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

Four of the bloodiest years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor on ...

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to ... A combination of pictures shows Palestinian fighters ...

Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to bear the same message, half a century after the devastating conflict erupted: never again.

Imagine Central Brooklyn as it looked in the decades before the Civil War. The neighborhoods we call Bedford Stuyvesant ... the first non-family member to own the property since 1860. The Elkins ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had an eye-raising response to the war of words Elon Musk and Peter Navarro are having over Donald Trump's tariff agenda. 'Boys will be boys,' she ...