On a sunny but crisp afternoon this spring, more visitors than you might think trekked on a weekday to Ball’s Bluff ...

Hezbollah has begun a major strategic review in the wake of its devastating war with Israel, including considering scaling ...

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to bring home all the hostages still held by militants in war-stricken Gaza, where ...

Young children wandered through the charred shell of what had been a school sheltering displaced Palestinians on Thursday, ...

How have our shared visions of American ideals influenced the meaning of patriotism? How has this definition evolved over ...

China claims Taiwan as its own despite Taipei's objections. The United States does not recognize Taiwan's statehood but has ...

War has always been the driver of history, economics and industry. Western prosperity is a product of the battlefield. The United States became the supreme world power after World War II. That was not ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Biden removed the names of Confederate generals from nine Army installations. Trump has restored those Confederate names, but ...

America’s 249th birthday Friday will be no party. Call it bittersweet at best. The guns of Gettysburg were stilled on July 4, 1863, after the Union Army whipped Robert E. Lee and Confederates brigades ...

The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...