Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

Col. John Kean, the great-great-grandfather of Rep. Thomas H. Kean, Jr., was among the founders of the New Jersey Republican ...

who focuses on the post-Civil War South. “This name alchemy won’t work for some of the other bases, however." In this Jan. 4, ...

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President ...

A U.S. Army base originally named after a Confederate general, then renamed Fort Liberty, will revert to the name Fort Bragg.

Many people know Harriet Tubman as the fearless conductor of the Underground Railroad, but fewer know the whole story of her ...

An obscure New Jerseyan named William Dayton nearly knocked Abraham Lincoln out of his place in history. Dayton was elected to the New Jersey Legislature ...

The Army is exploring legal ways to change the base’s name without violating the law that bans the use of confederate names, the two people familiar with the conversations said.

The historic North Carolina military base will once again bear its old name in a move that’s “effective immediately.” ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.