With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

Tennessee’s story is built on moments that shaped the course of American history. It was the last state to secede and the ...

In the Mexican American war, six child cadets, fought U.S. forces to the death at the Battle of Chapultepec... or so the ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Stephanie M. Your browser does not support the audio element.Cathay Williams was a brave ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

With nothing but old maps and metal detectors, we set out into the West Texas desert—and what we found was incredible. We rediscovered the lost site of Fort Stockton, a 19th-century Indian Wars fort ...

Rivers rose and flooding worsened across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly ...

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian-American teenager and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night, according to Palestinian officials, after the Israeli military said it ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he is committed to improving the Indian Health Service. Native American leaders have doubts. “It’s shameful,” one said. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg ...

ST. LOUIS – In a relentless rainstorm, a groundbreaking ceremony was held, attributing to the sacrifice of African American soldiers during the Civil War. “The troops could go out if our ...