The American Civil War erupted in 1861 with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, followed soon after by the First Battle of Bull Run. This video traces the opening shots of the war, the shockwaves ...

The Nutcracker ballet serves forward a swirl of the chaos of the holiday season.

The partially completed Catholic Church, poised as the fort to be used in defense of the futilely attempted Confederate ...

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Today, we commemorate the 81st anniversary of the legendary Battle of the Bulge—the largest and deadliest battle fought by American forces in the Second ...

Borroum’s Drug Store, Mississippi’s oldest continuously operating pharmacy and soda fountain, serves up slugburgers in a setting that feels refreshingly straightforward – no pretension, no complicated ...

Indiana state Senator Mike Gaskill, a Pendleton Republican, declared on Thursday that a "second civil war has already started" in the United States, as he urged his colleagues to back an ultimately ...

Around 620,000 men died during the Civil War — roughly two percent of the United States' population at the time. After the battle of Cold Harbor in the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was called a ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The US military has killed scores of people — 83 and counting — in unprecedented ...

More than 80 people have now been killed by U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats. There are growing questions about an order to kill two of those people — whether it amounts to a war crime. Here’s ...

Welcome aboard the only operating time machine in American sports media. As you read this, you are being throttled forward in time by roughly a year. ("Roughly" because the machine still has trouble ...

Backstairs meetings between the two leaders' proxies got leaked by European intelligence services (Photo by JIM WATSON and EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON,EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty ...