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

Mona Ziade, who helped The Associated Press cover major events out of the Middle East during the 1980s and ’90s, has died ...

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 ...

Democrats continuing to shut down the federal government are "in the middle of a civil war," Rep. Mike Haridopolos, a former history teacher, told ...

Lexington, Missouri stands as living proof that sometimes the most enchanting getaways are hiding just a short drive away, tucked along the banks of the mighty Missouri River about an hour east of ...

Republicans and Democrats alike used every procedural lever available — from mid-decade map rewrites to the strategic admission of new states like the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming — to lock in House, ...

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

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

US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

The waterway cuts through a tangled and tragic past in southeastern Colorado that still echoes Western expansion, Indigenous displacement.

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...