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How the most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy – the mid-1800s – coincided with a sudden boom in new ...

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Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special one-hour, ranger-led, 1.2-mile hike exploring the ...

Iran cannot risk sparking an all-out war with a technologically superior adversary backed by global superpower – the US; but ...

Nate Bargatze reprised his role as George Washington to share more of his hopes and dreams for the country with his Revolutionary War soldiers Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, and James Austin ...

At the Yorktown battlefield, where Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington in the decisive battle of the Revolutionary War, the woods were so deep I couldn’t imagine a cannonball would penetrate ...

October 4th has witnessed a number of significant historical events throughout the centuries. From pivotal battles and ...

Over the next two hours, the group prayed, sometimes quietly and sometimes very loudly, and sometimes in strings of syllables ...

A new framework of the fighting was made clear by large overnight blasts in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where Hezbollah ...

Israel’s war cabinet is weighing its response after Iran launched its largest-ever attack on the country. Follow for live updates.