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 ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Peter Krause of Boston College about the Trump Administration's willingness to act ...

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of ...

The Ludlow Amendment resonated with the public. The Gallup Poll, then in its infancy, found that three-quarters of Americans ...

As the belligerent US president threatens more attacks on South America with no regard to international law, he is causing ...

In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior. On board was an American diplomat, Francis ...

As the eagle dancers finished their final prayer before the hundreds gathered at the Jemez Pueblo plaza on Tuesday, Jan 6, ...

The rumor came from Denmark's former Minister of Greenland Tom Høyem. A British journalist contradicted the claim.

Russia has deployed naval assets to the Atlantic to protect an oil tanker that is being actively pursued by US forces.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter. During these eight decades, much has been accomplished that calls for celebration. Yet, there is no denying that the United ...

MAGA is a vulgar, cartoonish, cultish, and incoherent movement. So, a century ago, was fascism. And as today’s MAGA more ...