Historians and others look to balance any celebrations with questions about slavery, women and Indigenous people and what their stories say about the U.S. overall.

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

He did use violence, though. His Brown Shirt thugs intimidated many a German into voting for Hitler. However, even then, it was the Great Depression that ultimately put Hitler in power.

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

The US Supreme Court said on Thursday it will hear arguments next month over Donald Trump’s bid to broadly enforce his ...

Democratic Party vice chair David Hogg's financing primary challenges against establishment Democrats is exposing intra-party ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...

The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday denied media reports they were involved in talks with the U.S. over a ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is set to hold talks in Bangkok on Thursday with Myanmar's junta chief to push for a ...

David Hogg, the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, plans to spend $20 million to oust Democratic incumbents.

America has periodically faced great national tests. The Civil War and Reconstruction. The Great Depression. McCarthyism and ...

The film discusses the aftermath of the Civil War, focusing on the devastation in the South and the challenges faced by ...