On Sept. 3, Troy from Frederick had a few facts wrong. The Maryland State Legislature was imprisoned before they could vote on secession. There were more soldiers from Maryland in the Confederate army ...

Airing over a span of five nights during late September in 1990, Ken Burns’ “The Civil War” remains, to this day, the only documentary that claims to explain the entirety of the war that engulfed the ...

Colorado State University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. The U.S. citizenship test – which immigrants must pass before becoming citizens of the United States – has this question: ...

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war is. In the near future, the U.S. president has given ...

A day after the brawling and racist brutality and deaths in Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe asked, “How did we get to this place?” The more relevant question after Charlottesville—and other deadly ...

Alexander Burns is head of news at POLITICO. He has covered elections and political power across the U.S. for over a decade and co-wrote a best-selling book about Donald Trump and Joe Biden. His ...

In Alex Garland’s tough new movie, a group of journalists led by Kirsten Dunst, as a photographer, travels a United States at war with itself. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...