Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

Researchers believe it was a gunboat built in 1775 to defend Philadelphia. They don't know all the places the boat sailed to ...

A decade before America’s original No Kings movement, Ben Franklin stood in London before the House of Commons and — while ...

A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...