After more than 80 years, Army veteran Willibald Bianchi was properly identified using advanced forensic science. Next May, ...

On December 26, 1776, the full might of General George Washington’s Continental Army was revealed along the frozen riverbanks of ...

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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Little known outside of New Mexico, the Pueblo Revolt “was, in effect, the first American Revolution with far-reaching ...

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 ...

Ambrose Bierce's 1890 short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is one of the most famous in all of American literature. The story follows a wealthy slave owner about to be hanged during the ...

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 ...