Explore the Civil War era, from slavery and secession to major battles, emancipation, and the conflict’s lasting impact on the United States.

The sisters developed their love for both cats and Civil War history when they were young. They spent time creating small ...

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 ...

The Civil War isn’t what it used to be. Instead of the romantic version, a “good war” of courage and glory, that emerged in the conflict’s immediate aftermath, or the post-civil-rights-era emphasis on ...

On the evening of February 21, 2022, three days before Russian forces began the largest land invasion on the European continent since World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an angry ...

A scholar of totalitarianism argues that new laws restricting the discussion of race in American schools have dire precedents in Europe. An anti-integration demonstration at a Montgomery, Ala., high ...

The Treaty of Westphalia is signed, ending the Thirty Years' War and radically shifting the balance of power in Europe. The Thirty Years' War, a series of wars fought by European nations for various ...

It is remarkable that yet another American administration has, in the face of scant understanding of far-off societies, willfully overlooked the bitter lessons of history in trying to overthrow brutal ...

Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II. By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy ...

Is the world entering a new cold war? Our answer is yes and no. Yes if we mean a protracted international rivalry, for cold wars in this sense are as old as history itself. Some became hot, some ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have imagined a quick and easy victory when he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, even smugly calling it a “special military ...