President Trump directs reopening of Alcatraz to house most dangerous criminals. The place once known as 'The Rock' could ...

To understand the significance of Brace’s life and legacy, it’s important to have some sense of 1850s America. At the beginning of the decade, the nation’s 23 million people were spread ...

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

Argentine President Javier Milei ordered the declassification of the documents after a meeting with the Simon Wiesenthal ...

Alcatraz is in San Francisco Bay off the coast of San Francisco and visible from the Golden Gate Bridge. It is best known for ...

An Air America Pilot’s Story of Adventure, Descent and Redemption.” Wade House Historic Site will open for the season May 24.

“By the 1850s,” writes Wilson ... As the historian Kate Masur shows in “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction,” a ...

The US Army built a fort there in the 1850s and equipped it with artillery needed to protect the bay from foreign invasion amid growing US interests in the Pacific. It was also used to protect San ...