President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on Wednesday. “The Civil War, it ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

Just who qualifies as a hero was on my mind as I began researching my book "Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster ... she refused to write a book of her Civil War exploits after the war and conducted ...

Among other things, “1861” portrays the waiting game that Maj. Robert Anderson faced as he commanded Fort Sumter and faced ...

Thank you very much, Dean Miles, for that introduction. Class of 2025, families, and friends, it is a tremendous honor for me ...

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be ...

Historian Douglas Brinkley (Rice University) recalled a conversation he had with Donald Trump shortly after his 2016 presidential victory. Trump mused about having his name “carved” on Mt. Rushmore ...

The writ of habeas corpus is a safeguard against unlawful detention. It requires the government to justify, under the law, ...