With Osama bin Laden dead and buried at sea, America awoke to joyous images of celebration and relief Monday even as President Barack Obama - already winning broad bipartisan praise for stopping the ...

Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan discusses his dramatic new book about a spontaneous movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln – and frightened the slave-holding south History is really the only ...

You’ve heard it before: we are living in divided times. Disagreement is part of being a citizen of a democracy, but in today's indisputably hot political climate, young people have stepped up into ...

A Wide Awakes rally in October 1860 filled much of Lower Manhattan with marchers and spectators, and left the city stinking of burned torch oil.Credit...National Museum of American History, ...

MEXICO CITY — Hours after declaring victory, Mexico’s newly elected president, the first woman to win the job, faced a market meltdown Monday and a tough path toward reconciling a country deeply ...