When the Union Army seized Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 18, 1865, Black troops led the way. The 21st U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, composed of formerly enslaved men, was the largest ...

On Dec. 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress: “Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 – a date ...

A new lawsuit says the National Park Service is censoring history by removing anything that suggest America has ever been anything less than awesome.

George S. Cook took the first combat-action photos of the Civil War, of Union ships in Charleston Harbor as they fired on Fort Sumter (detail of ships below). He had gone to the fort on Sept. 8, 1863, ...