Learn how the pardoning of insurrectionists by Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant led to periods of national harmony and violence.

Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.

The head of the U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination on Monday warned 20 major law firms that ...

The intrigue of a Civil War chase between the North and South in locomotives will be retold by Pike County resident Sam Gross as part of a event at the All Wars Museum. The Civil War Great Locomotive ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

Cecily is the author of the upcoming 'Abraham Lincoln and the American West', and 'The Army Under Fire: Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era'. Produced and edited by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was ...

On the eve of the presidential election in November, I traveled with my wife and grandson to visit Gettysburg National ...

Democrats on Capitol Hill are waging an internal war against one of their own after the GOP successfully muscled through the Senate a partisan spending bill that drew the votes of Minority Leader ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

President Trump gave federal agencies a deadline this week to implement a large-scale reduction in force. The order would not ...

Two distinct features of American society have been ignored by our politicians for far too long: Race and the changing nature of capitalism.