An eyewitness account has thrown light on an English Civil War battle that took place near The Forbidden Lands in Sussex.

The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...

Four Courts during the Civil War in 1922 are being made available online, including 60,000 names from the Irish 19th century ...

Almost all 19th-century census records were destroyed but some have been recovered as part of the Virtual Treasury project ...

I loved the Fourth. I mean, as an 11-year-old back in those halcyon days of the ‘50’s, who wouldn’t have? Up in the morn, gobbling down Corn Flakes, running down Skinner to the park, joining the guys ...

and constitutional democracy,” Sumner pushed U.S. presidents and Senate colleagues alike to end slavery before the Civil War and to secure black rights during Reconstruction. Mr. Tameez’s monograph ...

Rory McIlroy made an impressive start to the Travelers Championship to sit two shots off the lead, before world number one ...

Our expert historian and columnist surveys the historical field and picks a shelf’s work of books that every intelligent ...

The naval theater of the American Civil War was filled with innovation and strategic importance. From the Union’s Anaconda Plan and blockade strategy to Confederate ironclads and daring sea ...

Many of the institutions that Trump is threatening to curtail or destroy — PBS, NPR, Harvard, the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, Voice of America and even national parks — have made this country a ...