Fort Sumter sat on an artificial island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor. It was unfinished. Less than half its guns were in ...

On May 10, 1775, a small band of American militiamen stunned the most powerful military in the world when they fearlessly wrestled Fort Ticonderoga from British control—delivering the first American ...

President Donald Trump has described the Iran war as an "excursion" in a Truth Social post comparing the length of ...

Moscow’s influence is Eastern Europe has been slipping of late, including with the loss of a stalwart ally in Hungary. The ...

July 4, 2026, will mark a milestone – and a time for reflection. Yet as fascination with America’s founding endures, controversy colors how the revolution is taught across the United States. From ...

George Washington, a Founding Father, led the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War and became the first U.S. president.

More than 1,380 monuments, markers and memorials across the Vicksburg battlefield preserve the memory of the soldiers who ...

Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com's foreign editor, based in the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, prior to which he worked for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., and ...

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Grant offered magnanimous terms, allowing Confederate soldiers to keep their horses and small ...

As turmoil grips the Middle East and tensions involving Iran deepen, global attention is shifting – rapidly and predictably – away from Sudan. This is familiar terrain. Sudan has long suffered from ...