A New York group might have failed in a legal bid to stop a historic ocean liner from being turned into a reef, but it and ...

The Sons of Liberty strategized at Fraunces Tavern, then George Washington celebrated victory and said farewell to his troops there.

After more than a decade of failed reforms, mounting deaths, and repeated warnings from the courts, a federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of wresting control of New York City’s jail ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...