Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust ...

In October 1952, a rebuilt division faced three Chinese divisions on a 395-meter hill northwest of Cheorwon. The ROK 9th ...

Osceola was once the kind of town people bet the future of southwest Missouri on — busy, growing, and wealthy enough to draw ...

Many of Lima’s 2,000 citizens were in church that sunny Sunday morning in April 1861 when the excited talk of war on the ...

Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ironic as so-called involuntary parks — places too toxic, dangerous, or otherwise made off-limits for human habitation, but which have paradoxically ...

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. Lower courts ruled for the transgender ...

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 ...

This image shows a cyclorama building from 1894 (though it is not the cyclorama that was in Fort Worth). Courtesy Richard Selcer Cycloramas were a form of three-dimensional art hugely popular in the ...

Longfellow's son, Charley, went on to become a world traveler and author after his brief career as a soldier. (NPS) Charles Appleton Longfellow was the oldest child of American poet and writer Henry ...

Some of the other Civil War battles listed here had higher casualties than the Battle of Shiloh, which took place in Tennessee in April 1862. But this Civil War battle was among the first to show the ...

The Louisiana state historic marker near the Pinhook Bridge says two battles took place there in 1863: "Bayou Vermilion," it says. "Battle of Pinhook Bridge April 17, 1863. Battle of Bayou Vermilion ...

For more than a century, the Ionia County Courthouse has been home to a piece of American Civil War history — a battle flag sewn by local women and carried by men who formed a volunteer Union regiment ...