A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

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

AQA Component 3.2, Section 3.2.1.6: Political parties: the ideological changes in both the Democratic and Republican parties ...

The Fano insurgency is taking place in a territory three times the size of Tigray, stretching the army’s resources.

Five years of civil war killed hundreds of thousands of people. A peace deal reached in 2018 has been fragile and not fully implemented, to the frustration of the U.S. and other international backers.

On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

The Civil War Museum has debuted a new exhibit highlighting advancements in technology made throughout the war.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic ... led some observers to posit that the African nation’s yearslong civil war could be at a ...

Even before a powerful 7.7-magnitude quake hit Myanmar, more than 3 million people in the country faced displacement.

The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war.