The Midwest region, also known as the Middle West or the North Central Region of the United States, is home to Lake of the Ozarks, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and Mall of America.

Efforts are underway to include the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home on the Civil War Trails as it expands into southwestern ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

Washington, Lincoln and even Millard Fillmore and are among the presidents honored with Denver streets — and one infamous VP.

U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents.

Learn more about "Doc" Jones, his time with the Navy, his family, and the start of the Amarillo Branch of the NAACP.

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

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