Campaign flag supporting Republican candidates Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Lincoln had good reason to doubt his chances for reelection. No president since Andrew Jackson in 1832 had won a ...

The Southeastern Conference and Big Ten occupy 64% of this week’s AP Top 25, with 16 ranked tream combined, the most ever by ...

Our history is not all crises weathered and problems solved. It is also brass bands, and torchlight parades, and barrels of ...

Casey Cep on Ronald E. Walters of the National Cemetery Administration.

In a world where fortunes are made and lost by the brush of a hoof and a hundredth of a second, a pair of unlikely ...

Forget about tornados, sunflowers hold a special place in Kansas' heart — they're the state flower and even on the state flag. The brown ... abolition of slavery in 1864. A congressman from ...

For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White Americans, while many of the inspiring ...

MAURY, and made a voyage as far as the Cape of Good Hope, acting as a vessel of war or privateer in the Confederate service, and taking and sinking ships carrying the Federal flag. Not till two ...

Alternative facts have always been with us, and they've always been used to cover up uncomfortable truths. Here's some ...

The shield's height is 36 inches, in honor of Nevada's admission to the Union on Oct. 31, 1864, as the 36th state. The words "Battle Born," just as on the state flag, acknowledge Nevada ... and a ...

No matter who you ask, everyone has an opinion on the American flag. The United States flag has a nearly 250-year history as ...