Dan Gediman’s new podcast, The Copperhead Conspiracy, looks at how thousands of Northerners conspired with the Confederacy to ...

William Henry Seward and his wife, Frances, shared antislavery convictions, but his career imposed great stress on their ...

On Tuesday, the justices will hear oral arguments about Idaho and West Virginia laws that restrict those born male from ...

A culture clash driven by finances and Old World alignments had the Big Apple contemplating leaving the Union. The Civil War ...

Some salute defense secretary’s actions that he says will reawaken the military’s “warrior ethos” — and others, not so much.

This announcement followed the most permissive period of illegal migration in modern U.S. history. Between January 2021 and ...

From the fight for women’s suffrage to opposition to racism, Bamber Bridge’s history reflects a strong commitment to justice.

In 1823, President James Monroe called for European powers to stay out of the Americas – a stance that for generations led to ...

I first stepped into a former gymnasium near downtown Marion with John Fogleman, who served 26 years as a circuit judge in ...

Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose “What Hath God Wrought” became a widely acclaimed chronicle of ...

A fifth oil tanker linked to Venezuela was interdicted by U.S. forces in the Caribbean, U.S. Southern Command confirmed on ...

War is back in vogue, and a zeal for war is spreading,” Pope Leo XIV said in a forceful address on Jan. 9 to ambassadors from ...