Henrick chronicles the “valiant but ultimately doomed” efforts of Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis and his cabinet to secede from and try to defeat the United States.

On July 4, 1776, the hallowed Founding Fathers declared America’s independence ... On March 21, 1861, so-called Confederate States Vice President Alexander H. Stephens made his Cornerstone ...

Edmund J Coppa To help people better visualize the population distribution, stat chronicler Visual Capitalist reimagined a U.S. map that scales states according to population figures pulled from ...

How much do states receive in federal spending compared to what their residents and businesses pay through taxes? A recent report from the Rockefeller Institute of Government provides answers.

Google, Apple and Bing Maps have changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America following an executive order from President Trump. MapQuest has not yet updated its map to reflect Trump's order.

For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the ...

Taylor Swift advocated the removal of a KKK leader/Confederate general. She also applauded the removal of the statue of another racist, but less widely-known, figure from America’s history.

Each week, the CDC releases a map of influenza activity across the ... and Minnesota are all “high-activity” states. North Dakota and Utah are classified as “moderate.” ...

You can get in touch with John by emailing j.feng@newsweek.com A map by Newsweek has outlined ... posing economic and security challenges for the United States. The U.S. Navy has only four active ...

As Texas continues to contend with a growing measles outbreak that has sickened just shy of 200 and killed one, more states are reporting their own cases, including a second measles-related ...