It seems like Almost Yesterday that the city of Ironton, Missouri installed a series of historical markers to identify Civil ...

Reverend Al Sharpton has long been a prominent figure in civil rights activism ... Let us learn all about the TV personality's fitness transformation. Some years back, the weight scales at ...

Vetoing the Immigration Act of 1917, Woodrow Wilson opposed imposing a literacy test on immigrants that would restrict Asian ...

By: Guy Gugliotta       SC Daily Gazette The first words of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution tell us that “all persons born or naturalized?

1682 – Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent. 1833 – Peterborough, NH, ...

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

After decades in the works, construction of a new home for the Galena & U.S. Grant Museum is finally under way.

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...

April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty.

In 1940, Germany invaded Norway and Denmark. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels blamed Britain for the invasion, ...