In Alex Garland’s “Civil War,” the Western forces of Texas and California hardly remember what they’re fighting for. At least ...

Two Pottsville militia units, Washington Artillerists and National Light Infantry, were among the First Defenders to answer ...

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

It takes its name not from the percussion instrument, but from Lt. Col. Richard Coulter Drum, the Adjutant General based in ...

The stories these men and others told, the histories of the post-Civil War South that they put forward, were largely tales of ...

With the White House trying to whitewash the past, museums of civil rights activism keep us honest, protecting the US legacy ...

Latin America’s vast natural resources have been a draw for U.S. interests across history and industries—from Alexander ...

I ran out to the porch where my parents and their friends were smoking cigarettes and drinking beer and watching a slugfest ...

Situated along the winding Alabama River, Selma combines deep historical roots with the kind of affordability that’s becoming ...

Having just toured the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia, one day after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses Grant, Lincoln found himself ...

Three other freshmen Republicans had been elected in 1920 from Tennessee. Joe Brown, the son of a former Republican congressman, had defeated veteran congressman John A. Moon, who had been in the ...