Peter Feuerherd

What started as a solemn commemoration of dead Civil War soldiers has become a celebration of summer. Here's why that makes total sense.

Ninety years after the duo was executed, there are virtually no physical markers in Boston commemorating them.

On July 2, 1881, less than a year after President James Garfield was elected the 20th president of the United States, he was shot by Charles Guiteau.

Religious scholars argue that the Waco raid was not justified and that with more understanding of theology, the loss of life could have been avoided.

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

Was Abraham Lincoln's the most tumultuous presidential transition in American history?

Did you drink the Kool-Aid? The phrase has become such a part of the vocabulary that for many its origins have been obscured.