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Dr. Samuel Mudd, convicted of conspiracy in Lincoln’s death, narrowly escaping the death penalty but was sentenced to life imprisonment. While there is no…

Wilmer McLean, the Virginia wholesale grocery of whom it can be proclaimed that the Civil War “began in his front yard and ended in his front parlor”…

On April 12, 1864 1500 cavalry troops of Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, Tennessee on the Mississippi River. Pillow was garrisoned by 557…

With Lee’s army retreating from Gettysburg, in the West General John Pemberton surrendered Vicksburg, Mississippi to Federal forces commanded by Ulysses…

Officials with the City of San Antonio announced the Alamo Plaza will be closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic during the hours of 8:30 p.m. to 6…

There are over 6,000 languages in the world today. Some experts say the majority are on the verge of disappearance. NPR's Dean Olsher considers the rapid deaths of many of the world's languages -- like Papua New Guinea's Arapesh -- and reports on the debate in the linguistic community over the need to intervene and save them.

American basketball star Brittney Griner has been jailed in Russia for five months and 6 days now.

Genevieve Peters encouraged people to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Black Americans endured over 1.6 million more excess deaths in the last two decades compared to white Americans.

Some lawmakers — including some Republicans — have argued that Jordan shouldn’t be speaker because he is an extremist, citing his role in Jan. 6.