MLB’s Cleveland Guardians and the NFL’s Washington Commanders have both indicated they have no plans to go back to names that ...

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

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 15.3% on March 13, 1933, which is the all-time one-day record. A similar increase today would push the Dow up 6,700 points. The S&P 500 has risen by almost that ...

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.

What happens when a cold, rural corner of upstate becomes one of the most talked-about wine regions in the country? You get ...

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

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 ...

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