A monument in “old” St. Joseph Cemetery in Bedford is undergoing restoration. Along with patching, repainting, landscaping, and installing new lights, two new flags were hoisted up: an American flag ...

The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED.

This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

If violence erupts, that will provide an excuse to send troops to crush "insurrectionists." That strategy might work, but ...

In 1940 the first Civil War Roundtable was founded in Chicago. The Lehigh Valley’s is named the Civil War Roundtable of ...

No historian should be able to answer the question on good history without a degree of trepidation, ambivalence, and ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

Dr. Lesley J. Gordon to present new research on Civil War combat and culture — Free public lecture set for Oct. 27 at Houston Cole Library, 5 – 6:30 p.m. — Event part of Jax State’s Kaleidoscope ...

Next week, California voters will go to the polls to decide whether the state should authorize mid-decade redistricting to counter gerrymandering in Republican states and keep Democrats competitive in ...

Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...