Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

A piece of American history has been unearthed at the Liberia House, one of the most historically significant sites in ...

A gauge of the dollar resumed declines following a short-lived reprieve as concerns over an expanding trade war dented demand for US assets. The greenback hit a fresh six-month low, falling ...

James Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a retired US Navy admiral, former supreme allied commander of NATO, and vice chairman of global affairs at the Carlyle Group. With the US and ...

The tariff war and apparent U-turn over deliveries comes as Boeing has been recovering from an almost five-year import freeze on 737 MAX jets and a previous round of trade tensions. Confusion over ...

We need them speaking out on civil liberties, on the rights of immigrants and on the rights of universities." While Democrats are increasingly energized to resist Trump, a slew of national polls ...

April 20 (Reuters) - China's ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng ... China stood ready to retaliate in the escalating trade war. Speaking at a public event in Washington on Saturday ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...