The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...

Fort Johnson, which was named after Albany war hero and World War I Sgt. Henry Johnson, is being renamed to Fort Polk. The Army made that announcement Tuesday along with a slew of other name changes ...

In this episode, we explore a Civil War camp in Alabama that shows signs of use by Confederate, Union, and even Andrew Jackson's forces during the Creek Indian War of 1813. With friends visiting from ...

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

Take Tennessee, where the Eighth of August, known as Emancipation Day, has been the traditional celebration to mark the end of slavery, remind the nation of its bloodguilt and agitate for a more ...

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

ALBANY, N.Y. – A few months after the U.S. Defense Department took down a web page detailing World War I Sgt. Henry Johnson’s heroics, elected officials and military veterans celebrated the Medal of ...

School – and the federal government's role in it – has been a topic of debate in the U.S. since the very first Department of Education was created.

The pope also declared 124 martyrs from the Spanish Civil War, all from the Diocese of Jaén, killed between 1936 and 1938. They included 109 diocesan priests, one religious sister, and 14 lay ...

Since Iran emerged as a central issue in Washington, there has been copious chatter about a “civil war” within the MAGA movement over potential U.S. involvement in Iran.

As for the two front runners in the race, former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Assembly member Zohran Mamdani, it has been war of words for the two candidates.