Southern Democrats fought the American Civil War to protect slavery from President Abraham Lincoln and the newly-formed ...

Brown University history scholar Seth Rockman has spent the past 15 years researching his book Plantation Goods: A Material ...

Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A ...

Let’s set aside for a moment the questions of the legality and constitutionality of Trump’s action and ask instead: Where did ...

St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia, is a paradise of beaches, golf courses, tennis courts, swimming pools and nature ...

On Monday, as President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some of the president’s most ...

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon.

Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Will that change?

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

Few martial artists reached the same heights as Bruce Lee. A renowned fighter, TV and film star, artist, and poet, Lee was at the forefront of the San Francisco martial arts scene in the 1960s before ...