Confederate Memorial Day is an official holiday in several states. Why is it celebrated, and where? Does New Jersey take part? Here's what to know.

The Civil War must have been a confusing time for the tribes of Native Americans. Pushed from the east and relegated to Indian Territory, the group known as the Five ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'America, América: A New History of the ...

Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...

From the founding of the country, the various states of the United States have had rivalries. Of course, we all know these ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an ...

This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...

Vanuatu, site of a major U.S. naval base in the Pacific War, was also a vital venue for China's "undercover infrastructures," ...