Confederate States of America

Suzan-Lori Parks's 2010 drama about the troubled family of a border patrol officer has fresh resonance and insight at Steppenwolf.

Manisha Sinha spoke to Salon about Trump's 19th-century vision and America's history of radical resistance.

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex

That doesn't mean it's a good idea.

A Florida man was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump with a nuclear bomb during a recorded 911 call.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is returned to its former name without the Confederate namesake, as the Pentagon honored WWII Pvt. Roland Bragg of Maine.

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has, for the second time, reversed the renaming of a U.S. military base, saying that Fort Moore in Georgia should revert back to being called Fort Benning. The move reflects an ongoing effort by the Pentagon to overturn the Biden administration's 2023 decision to

Andrew Johnson was not going to easily comply with Republicans' demands or their plans to lead reconstruction policy.

The Trump administration can pardon the insurrectionists and delete pages of evidence. But it cannot hide what took place on that day.

President Donald Trump's move to retaliate against The Associated Press for not using the preferred language of the administration is even making a key right-wing Fox News contributor uncomfortable.The Associated Press has been barred from press briefings for three consecutive days because the wire ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Pentagon did not push same "globalist agendas" as USAID but welcomed DOGE "partnership" to find billions in waste.

On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the United States' first known case of novel coronavirus -- what would later come to be known as COVID-19.

Pete Hegseth defended naming things after the Confederacy, a new report reveals.

A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist

Craig Sicknick, the brother of the late Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, told a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday that Congress should block President-elect Donald Trump from being certified when it convenes January 6.

At the Capitol Building, standing behind this monument to the hero of the American Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, Congress will hold a joint session on Jan. 6

Trump's habit is to treat Lincoln not only as a giant of history, but something of a political contemporary. And a flawed one at that.