The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

President Trump’s anti-DEI executive actions have caused the United States Marine Band to cancel a concert with high ...

The president of Northwestern Bell Telephone was summoned to Washington to assemble the first plans for Cold War civilian ...

Michael King shares his story of selling water bottles as an eight-year-old in war-torn DR Congo to the boxing in the UK.

A look into the archives for a story about one of Wisconsin’s many soldiers during the Civil War. Have a yarn to spin? Send it to our editor at [email protected].

Civil War reenactors are camped out there all weekend and they’re inviting the public to come learn about what they do.

More than 2 million kids live with a disabled veteran at home. Calls are growing to extend more support to these ‘hidden ...

Sen. Ted Cruz has likened vouchers to “the civil rights issue of our time." But critics note they were used in the 1950s to fight integrated schools.

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates ...

In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...