Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

Ronald Reagan’s administration is often described as the first to use the unitary executive theory to expand power.

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...

On Hilton Head’s northern edge, Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park tells the story of what it was like for as many as 1,500 newly freed people living among the sea islands in search of refuge, ...

If federal agents are allowed to violate the law with impunity, then it will keep happening, and it will escalate, and ...

The BBC's Lyse Doucet follows Hind Kabawat as she confronts the challenges of fragmented, post-Assad Syria.

African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2012, 264 pp., $30.54 ...

On 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center ...

On June 17, 1863, Col. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was forced to watch his men get slaughtered near the village of Aldie, Virginia. Just hours earlier, his superior officer had placed him under arrest for ...

Paramilitary fighters kidnapped children during their takeover of the Sudanese city of al-Fashir in October and in other attacks in the Darfur region over the ...

President Donald Trump promised that help was “on the way”. Picture: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Now, with unconfirmed death toll estimates ranging from 6,000 up to 30,000, two United States Navy ...