The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia.

The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...