From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times, is the author of “Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History.” A ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

By Erin Flynn Jay for Spotlight PA This story first appeared in PA Local, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA taking a fresh, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical anniversary ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...