One hundred years ago, the Lutheran University Association purchased a struggling Valparaiso University and made it what it ...

She had, indeed, in a sense, three brothers in the Confederacy, but they were half-brothers, with whom she had had little to do, and anyway the Civil War was notoriously a great divider of the border ...

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield.

"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history ...

Opinion - Did Iraq's invasion bring accountability to Saddam's victims? Or did it bring new graves and insurgency?

In his new documentary series “The American Revolution,” the prolific filmmaker depicts a nation created by violence. Still, ...

On July 17, the Liberty brought two Connecticut-based ships into Newport Harbor, accusing their captains of customs ...

Taiwan has evacuated more than 3000 people ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Fung-wong, which, while weakening, is expected to ...