NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...

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

After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina ... state governments and the African-American citizens they tried to protect.

In the immediate aftermath of the war, American commentators ... promises that wrongly impressed American sailors would be released. Writing home to England, a captain on one of the Royal Navy ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

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

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

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

In the Mexican American war, six child cadets, fought U.S. forces to the death at the Battle of Chapultepec... or so the ...