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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

H.W. Brands We’ve never gotten along. Americans. Since before we were Americans. In “Our First Civil War: Patriots and ...

Though Donald Trump has pursued a US acquisition of Greenland more aggressively than any of his predecessors, the idea dates ...

On Jan. 3, 2026, President Donald Trump authorized an attack on Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás ...