Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Among 381 books that have been removed from the library at the U.S. Naval Academy is Maya Angelou’s best-seller, “I Know Why ...

Better known for imagining fake wars in Civil War and 28 Days Later ... whose earnest young West African subjects wear t-shirts printed with silly American slogans and jokes that they don ...

Kingsley Plantation tells one of Florida’s most distinctive slavery stories. In the early 1800s, Zephaniah Kingsley ran this ...

Last week, European donors committed a billion dollars to relieve suffering in the latest phase of the civil war in Sudan, which since it began ... The new southern political formation, the Sudan ...

While most remember the land battles of the American Civil War, the conflict at sea played a crucial role. In this animated ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

In honor of those who served their fellow injured or ill soldiers with compassion and courage while providing medical care, ...

This time, Turner added another stop on his long day’s journey — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Turner knelt in prayer and laid a wreath at the entrance of the ...