Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a ...

The list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1965 highlights several great and culturally seismic tracks from the year's biggest ...

In the immediate aftermath of the war, American commentators painted the ... America only paid lip service to the ideals of freedom, civil rights and constitutional government.

In December 1816, a group including Francis Scott Key, Daniel Webster and Henry Clay convened to form the American Colonization Society (ACS). George Washington’s nephew, Bushrod Washington ...

Had the law made civil war unavoidable? “I’d put it this way,” says historian George B. Forgie of the ... if not to an American empire, at least to a republic spanning the continent.

Over the next three years—in Canada, on Lake Champlain, in Rhode Island and Connecticut and again in New York—he made himself indispensable to his commander in chief, George Washington ...

Now, President Donald Trump is leaning on the advocacy groups that underpin U.S. civil society ... Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...