Today, our Nation commemorates the Battle of Chippawa—the historic victory in which American forces decisively defeated the British Army on July 5, ...

A look at early Fourth of July celebrations in Humboldt County, 1855-1865, reveals a host of red-white-and-blue American ...

How the simultaneous deaths of two Founding Fathers entrenched the idea that the United States was chosen by God ...

From folk music to abolition and women’s rights, Illinois helped shape American history and culture.

During the American Civil War, medical treatment was fast, bloody, and brutal compared to modern standards. Surgeons worked during a ...

The Declaration of Independence established a principle that ultimately doomed slavery, even if it could not abolish the institution overnight.

From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of ...

Across New England, a writer traveled down dirt paths and into historic homes to find the forgotten stories of the enslaved ...

The 1st Wisconsin Regiment was made up of militia units from the Lake Michigan coast and was the first unit from the state ...

Sixty years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, we are still fighting the demons of division and racial inequality.

Demonstrators hold letters making up the slogan "Born in the USA = citizen!" outside the U.S. Supreme Court building as the ...

With the assistance of advanced remote sensing technology and the help of a determined local historian, archaeologists believe they’ve discovered the location of two mass graves of Black Union ...