New Jersey firefighters are working to protect homes and a historic landmark where iron for the country's first soldiers was ...

Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.

Harriet Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard on Monday in recognition ...

The American Civil War set ... in the Creek War.” Jackson’s onslaught against the Red Sticks won him both a promotion and subsequent command during the Battle of New Orleans, where his victory ...

How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the ...

The pack or two a soldier might carry in his pocket would be burned up during “the many lazy days devoted to sailing across ...

A forgotten Civil War veteran who died without a proper burial is finally receiving recognition, thanks to two eighth-grade students in New York ... He had been injured during the war and spent ...

American Civil War soldier Daniel Walterhouse ... Wilkinson learned that Walterhouse had lived in western New York following 1½ years of service during the Civil War. He’d enlisted in 1861 ...

A grim reaper had mowed down the flower of American manhood. At Gettysburg ... had been unearthed piecemeal in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. From New Jersey farms, Alabama ...

Lee surrendered to him at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, ending the Civil War. The Army elevated four generals to five-star status during World ... Vanderbilt of the New York Central Railroad ...

The growing power of the presidency has been taking place in plain view, decade after decade in the Oval Office.

Thirty Vietnam veterans were honored with a medal and lapel pin by the Long Island Air Force Association at the Museum of ...