Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

Many Americans feared a second Civil War if Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, lost the 2024 US presidential election.

Though a civil war can feel frighteningly possible in the U.S. in 2024, it remains extremely implausible. These wars are by ...

The Civil War has been given many names: the War Between the States, the War Against Northern Aggression, the Second American Revolution, the Lost Cause, the War of the Rebellion, the Brothers ...

non-violence is not guaranteed to be a permanent characteristic of the Second Civil War. There are those on both the left and the right who call for American “unity.” But these calls are ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

A documentary special provides an overview of the U.S. military across the centuries, mostly focusing on the American ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

So the second Trump term will be the last. That may not be much comfort for progressives, but there is one important point to ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

The US carried out a second consecutive night of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, according to a US defense official.