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.

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic ...

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

Records show city officials in 2023 spent $16,000 to upgrade a Confederate marker, located on Wise Street in Manchester, that ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

Between the Civil War and the end of World War II, the Midwest transitioned from a rural economy to an industrial agricultural economy as the Midwest rapidly industrialized.

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

History buffs will love this Mississippi destination, where a Civil War battle took place that altered the course of history ...

“Unity of Fields,” the recently rebranded group formerly known as Palestine Action US—the new name ... As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an ...