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

The Continental Army engages the British in the last major battle in the North of the Revolution. A solar eclipse plunges the colonies into darkness in June 1778 as the Continental Army mobilizes from ...

Borroum’s Drug Store, Mississippi’s oldest continuously operating pharmacy and soda fountain, serves up slugburgers in a ...

Ambrose Bierce's 1890 short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is one of the most famous in all of American literature ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Garry Adelman of the American Battlefield Trust described the motivations and events that occurred during the Battle of Gettysburg and the ...

The long-running feud over Touro Synagogue has lasted for 13 years, so long that some of the people involved have since died.

Coming out of the Deadline Premium Live Event, next up on the slate for NXT is the brand’s weekly show on The CW on December 9th. The lineup for that has been announced, and it’ll feature LFG season ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers who have tried repeatedly to rein in President Donald Trump's aggression against Venezuela said on Tuesday they would file a new resolution to force 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 ...

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 ...