Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

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

Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely ...

President Donald Trump's defense secretary can't simply snap his fingers and change Texas' Fort Cavazos back to Fort Hood. A ...

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

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

The military base had been renamed Fort Liberty as part of an effort to rechristen bases named for Confederate officers.

A short walk from the Strand in Liverpool city centre is a commemorative plaque which seems completely out of place in the ...

TAKE a walk in the Dean Cemetery on the west side of Edinburgh and you will find a memorial that is emblazoned with the distinctive battle flag ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

The flag icon has been used on government sites since 2017, said a spokesperson for the General Services Association, which guides federal website standards. The flag had only nine stars because of ...

A search of website archives confirmed the small, nine-star American flag icon existed prior to U.S. President Donald Trump's ...