As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for metaphors.

When Americans are asked to think about Civil War uniforms, two colors typically come immediately to mind: blue and gray. But ...

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are ...

The Rated Red Crew uncovers how the Civil War keeps haunting Wilmer McLean’s yard and finds history is messier than you ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's assassination ,,, ...

The American Civil War began with tension, but it erupted with cannon fire at Fort Sumter. What followed was the chaotic and shocking Battle of Bull Run, where both sides realized the war would not be ...

By 1864, more than 12,000 surgeons had served in the Union army throughout the Civil War. Just 14 of them were Black. Historian Jill Newmark's 2023 book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of ...

"So many of my assumptions about the world and how to better it were turned upside down." ...

• The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died at age 84. His son, Jesse Jackson Jr., told CNN that ...