A 1943 photo shows the Illinois Terminal Depot in Alton partially submerged during a Mississippi River flood that crested at ...

On Jan. 16, 1991, in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced the start of Operation Desert Storm, an Allied combat operation to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves.

The century-old Civil War monument, featuring a Union soldier and engraved names of war veterans, was toppled by a semi-truck ...

Pershing in World War I and by General George Marshall in World War II. Near by was William Tecumseh Sherman’s ornate library table, and on it a model of the Oozlefinch bird, a frog-eyed ...

Powerful sound fills the soaring ceilings of the iconic Gothic cathedral, and the sheer ambiance of the numerous ...

The adult babies of Gen Z can cry about strict workplace mores and whine over the anxiety-inducing stress of making a phone call. But they can’t even change a lightbulb, per new data on the ...