Starting at around 2:30 a.m., a 35,000-strong Union force attacked Confederate troops numbering around 32,000.

The remnants of Hurricane Danny left significant damage across parts of South Carolina from July 23-24 in 1997.

On this day in U.S. history, in 2007, the seventh and final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released. The novel had an initial print run of 12 million copies in the U.S.

Antique farm equipment demonstrations took people through the history of agriculture in America. Featuring a live sawmill ...

The Brewers made history with a 6-0 sweep of the Dodgers, extending their win streak to 10 and climbing to the top of the NL Central.

Bicentennial Minutes” modeled a kind of mass-culture unity we’re unlikely to match for the country’s next big birthday.

The short version is that the term history has evolved from an ancient Greek verb that means “to know,” says the Oxford English Dictionary’s Philip Durkin. The Greek word historia originally ...

"Our Story With David Attenborough" at the Natural History Museum is a 50-minute program that explores humankind's role in the planet's ongoing story ...