Gen. John Magruder, a Virginia-born Confederate general, took charge of Texas defenses from late 1862 onward, and led a ...

While Trump promotes his "no tax on tips" proposal in Las Vegas, Senate Republicans are working to secure his team.

Just hours after his confirmation as defense secretary on Friday night, Pete Hegseth issued his “message to the force” in a ...

In a "Mormon Land" podcast, a historian and a tribal leader discuss the facts and fiction in "American Primeval" ...

With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump’s second inaugural address ...

Premier combat troops have been ordered to the southern border, as part of Trump’s militarization of immigration.

The President is recasting migration as a form of “invasion,” broadening his already expansive powers and making anyone in ...

Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A ...

Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...

The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the ...