It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.

The anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War precedes a slew of planned celebrations when the United States marks ...

This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...

By using surviving artifacts, eyewitness testimony, accurately reproduced uniforms, original firearms and the thorough study ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced British soldiers about 20 miles west of Boston.

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

But in her magisterial new history of the constitutional debates of the era, legal historian Alison LaCroix expands her (and our) horizons beyond the modest contributions of the Supreme Court of the ...

It’s been 250 years since that fateful night. Now, a different warning echoes – the specter of a new authoritarianism, writes Mike Dean.

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

This will be 47 years and it’s still going strong. Area history buffs are encouraged to visit the annual Ohio Civil War/World War I & II Show at the Richland County Fairgrounds in Mansfield.

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 ...