America’s chief humanitarian official rose to fame by speaking out against atrocities. Now she’s trapped by one.

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Former Russian Prime Minister and longtime Vladimir Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev recently made a bold prediction that the ...

About 57,000 books have been published on the American Civil War so what possibly could be left to explore? Quite a bit, it ...

It's not a history of the Civil War in the West, but throws fresh light on aspects of the war there, a theater which “has long been pushed to the side by events in the Eastern Theater, but it was in ...

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Instead, we ignored history and, as a result, among so many other horrific things, left our weaponry—explosives, small arms, ...

Through the eyes of aspiring doctor Sashikala, Ganeshananthan paints a nuanced portrait of how youthful idealism can harden ...

The curriculum includes century-old books of U.S. history combined into an edited volume for Highlands Latin School ...

Tonya Graham McQuade will share excerpts from "A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale and Benjamin ...

Kara Walker, one of America's most preeminent artists, takes us to another moment in history when viewpoints were perilously ...

When they emerge from their books and battlefields, the scholars and historians specializing in the original Civil War, from 1861-65, rarely believe that sort of starkly regional conflict would ...