Griffin said he regretted donning the Confederate uniform, which was customary during ... not long after Lee surrendered to the Union Army, at a Virginia college where Lee served as president.

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday he had an hour-long meeting with St. Louis Police Chief Robert Tracy in the ...

The Farragut Museum is back open after an 18-month closure, offering visitors a look back on the area’s original settlement and the town’s historic namesake.

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in ...

Elon Musk wasn’t the first to shape the national conversation. Joshua Norton, a San Francisco cult figure, was.

The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

After saying earlier in the day that he was “in no rush” to finish trade deals, President Donald Trump said he thought he ...