Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard Jordan, who suffered from PTSD after three combat tours in Vietnam.

Women played a central role in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and author Cathy Porter is making sure those women are not ...

Assassinated by a while supremacist, Medgar Evers became far more than a Mississippi activist in his short years.

The Morris Plains Democratic Committee held a Borough School 8th grade graduation scholarship essay contest in early May. The ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs’s federal sex-trafficking trial continues Friday, as defense attorney Marc Agnifilo presents closing ...

Mr Hassan founded the National Defence Forces, a pro-regime militia formed after the outbreak of civil war. The group was ...

On 19 June, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Burmese democratic leader will turn 80 in prison, where she has been held ...

Oregon Historical Society exhibit explores history of Minoru Yasui’s family before and after WWII incarceration.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the Iranian people, telling them that his war can help them free ...

In “The Third Reich of Dreams,” Charlotte Beradt collected the night terrors of ordinary Germans like herself during the early years of Nazi domination.

Get to know the real Mitford sisters whose lives as aristocrats, writers, rebels, and fascists inspired the BritBox drama.