The War of 1812 is often seen as a minor conflict in the grand scheme of history, but what if the outcome had been drastically different? What if the United States had emerged victorious over Britain?

It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...

The United States has had a long history as a two-party electoral system. But many, if not most, Americans are unhappy with ...

This year, our family holidays took place in Central Canada, a region my children had never visited before. We explored ...

With a dwindling number of exceptions, they are also no longer expected to pass high-level tests in order to prove that they ...

In 2024, they made up about 14% of Canada’s active Armed Forces, even though they represent less than 1% of the country’s ...

Why did North and South go to war with each other in 1861? The standard narrative is that slavery caused the war while more ...

Alfred and Robert Taylor were brothers campaigning to be Tennessee's governor in 1886. Their race was civil and a hopeful ...

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 was enacted to strengthen Congress’s check on the president’s war-making authority, but has been largely ignored by presidents, while the proposed War ...

In the early months of the American Revolution, Daniel Morgan and his soldiers raced north to join the Continental Army ...

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

IN THE “History of the Town of Rochester, New Hampshire, From 1722 to 1890,” published in 1892, author Franklin McDuffee told the story of the town’s founding. The reader learns ...