Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes Revolutionary War pension files and Civil War documents.

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

For better or worse, most of us are familiar by now with US President Donald Trump’s negotiating style. He likes to start ...

The makers of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Porcelain War" discuss the fragility of life — and the strength of resistance ...