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

Sepideh Qolian, a 30-year-old Iranian labor activist, spent two years in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where she wrote two books, one ...

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 arguments and prosecutor Maurene Comey gives a rebuttal.

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.

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

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

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