Sidestep: Adventures Into History on MSN

How was a 7-year-old a Civil War veteran? We found his grave

We returned to a small family cemetery in the Georgia woods to revisit the grave of Benjamin Williams, a Confederate veteran born in 1854. After speaking with a local historian, we learned something ...
The judges, representing appointees of nearly every president since Ronald Reagan, have grown increasingly alarmed by what ...
There’s no belabored origin story, no sludgy CGI climax, and, apart from needing a bit of knowledge of Iron Man 3 and ...
Andrew Guest’s eight-episode Disney+ series (January 27) is similar to HBO’s recent A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, in that ...
About a year ago I moved in with childhood best friend and his husband. We’re all in our mid-thirties. It’s been going great, ...
Heated Rivalry “wine moms” are all over social media, but why wouldn’t midlife women love the sexy, compulsive show?
Administrators faced sharp questioning as politicians examined delayed responses to athlete welfare concerns in Ireland’s high-performance rowing system ...
A judge ordered federal authorities not to destroy evidence from a fatal shooting by immigration agents. Videos directly contradict descriptions of the encounter by administration officials.
While looking at images in Eggleston’s current show in New York, “The Last Dyes” (at the David Zwirner gallery, through March ...
Also picked for preservation: ‘The Thing,' ‘Before Sunrise,' ‘Frida,' ‘Inception,' ‘Philadelphia,' ‘The Incredibles' and ‘The Hours,' while Ken Burns makes the list for the first time.
In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...
What Farage and Trump are feeding off are not the practical arguments but the cumulative paranoia they have themselves ...