The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...

Winik instead uncovers insights into the war's causes by looking closely at a peace conference convened at a Washington hotel four weeks before Abraham Lincoln's March 1861 inauguration.

The first documented proof of a Seaconke Wampanoag community dates to 1924. That year, the Seaconkes built the First Free ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Virginia's bid to scuttle a lawsuit challenging an 1869 state constitutional provision that imposes a lifetime voting ban on convicted felons, one of ...

There was no hesitation in Ike Borlands steps when he was asked to show off an amazing object at the Wilder Museum of Warren ...

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial, reflected in the Tidal Basin, pays tribute to the author of the Declaration of Independence, ...

Author and historian David Mowery will present “Cincinnati in the Civil War: Then and Now” at the next regular meeting of the ...

Change is coming to many Seattle neighborhoods because of new laws. But the challenge of housing suffers deep roots and will take years to improve.

The court's decision left enough room for the challengers to Trump's directive to try to prevent it from taking effect while ...

The U.S. Supreme Court may rule on Friday on Donald Trump's attempt to broadly enforce his executive order to limit birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thousands of babies born each year ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Monday, June 24, 1861. To the Editor of the New York Times: In your issue of yesterday, (Sunday,) there appears a letter dated "Fortress Monroe. June 17," in which there occurs ...

A document beginning, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ meaning obvious, kindles something new: the American spirit.