The History Channel Club

The George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University will be a fairly contemporary structure whose clean lines call to mind the shapes of Georgian architecture without replicating its ornament and details, according to drawings that the former president and his wife, Laura Bush, ...

There's a lot to love about our nation's capital. For a history buff that's true tenfold. From Ford's Theatre to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the Arlington House (the former residence of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee), Washington, D.C., is jam-packed with both prominent and obscure monuments, m...

It's not the war you know ... It's the war they lived. For the vast majority of us, images of World War II come in stark black-and-white. But beginning Nov. 15, HISTORY will unveil World War II in HD, an exciting new documentary of the war, including hours of previously unseen color footage of act...

On Nov. 20, 1943, U.S. forces embarked on a bloody mission to rout Japanese defenders from Tarawa Atoll in the South Pacific. Nearly 4,000 Americans were killed or wounded during the three-day battle, one of the bloodiest of World War II and in Marine Corps history.

What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose.

Curiosity is a great motivator (though the cat didn't fare too well). It was the driving force behind newsman Charles Kuralt's adventures criss-crossing the United States to tell the stories that never had a minor character.

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Nations honored those who sacrificed their lives in wars on Wednesday, in many cases for the first time without any surviving veterans of World War I.

America’s pastime shines brightest on the game’s grandest stage.

The National World War II Museum's gleaming new $60 million, 70,000-square-foot complex—comprising the Victory Theater, Stage Door Canteen, and The American Sector restaurant—is just about ready to take its bow. When the doors open Nov. 6, the facilities (part of a larger $300 million expansion) wil...

From the General Sherman tree (the world's largest Giant Sequoia, located in California's Sequoia National Park) to the Angel Oak (a 1,400-year-old Southern live oak on Johns Island in Charleston, S.C.), trees have played an integral part in the American story.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and other luminaries at what was once a fortified border crossing — retracing her steps on the night 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall fell.