PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

A monument in “old” St. Joseph Cemetery in Bedford is undergoing restoration. Along with patching, repainting, landscaping, and installing new lights, two new flags were hoisted up: an American flag ...

In the next 56 minutes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the Civil War, slavery, and of Frederick Douglas, offered a ...

This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

The other vision — an animating force inside the Trump administration — is exclusive and ethnonationalist. Vice President JD ...

In the span of 16 years in the back half of the 19th century, Americans watched as two of their presidents were struck down ...

Though the town itself is remarkably tiny, this Georgia destination is home to a national historic site that offers ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we collectively believe they do. Every nation is defined and shaped by the stories ...

Go back in time with a trip to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, home to a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy as well as a ...

Before Fox News fired him, Tucker Carlson was among the most influential figure on the right-wing cable news outlet. Carlson ...

Beyond the adoption of a resolution that strengthens Morocco's position on the regional conflict over the Moroccan Sahara ...

Tucked away in the rolling hills of Barbour County sits a historical gem that many travelers zoom past without realizing they’re crossing a national treasure – the Philippi Covered Bridge, a ...