It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Born Feb. 14, 1812, Columbus has gone from a simple settlement to Ohio’s largest city in its 213 years. Franklinton, named for Benjamin Franklin, was the first ...

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

Gabbard advances: Senators voted on party lines to push forward the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic member ...

who led the Union during the Civil War and put an end to slavery. Some of the former pro-slavery states still treat Confederate figures with respect while also honoring figures from the civil ...

The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States ... Union intact over freeing slaves at the time, according to History.com. The powder keg of the Civil War ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms of ...

European fears about the U.S. pulling its troops from the continent have been brewing for some time, with the head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, saying: "The U.S. will likely ...