The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the ...

Plans of a number of European states to place on Some "guarantee forces" for Ukraine and taking Odessa and Lviv under their ...

South Sudan had failed to respect the principle that  every country must accept the return of its citizens in a timely manner ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The head of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group admitted in a speech Sunday that the group has withdrawn from Sudan's ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is being punished by his party for not causing a government shutdown.

Speaking alongside fellow Black House Democrats, Waters addressed policies from the Trump administration that she saw as problematic, including the tariffs on Mexico and Canada, Elon Musk 's ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.

General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the heart of war-ravaged Myanmar of Friday, killing scores of people and prompting the country ...