About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who ...

President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. His efforts are history repeating itself.

Pete Hegseth has spent much of his first weeks in office focused on culture wars while saying little about America’s ...

Abraham Lincoln’s firm resolve during his last days demonstrated his enduring commitment to the common good', A CT historian writes.

On Monday, the Pentagon announced that it would be restoring the name Fort Bragg to the North Carolina Army base near ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed an order reinstating the name of one of the country's largest military bases back to ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg, ...

Some social media users have speculated that this change was linked to President Donald Trump's return to the White House, ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, Americans have grappled with how the Civil War will be remembered ... the lost cause of the Confederacy. On the day of the second inauguration of ...