The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national ...

who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to bearing bone fragments of St. Augustine and his mother, St. Monica, the pontiff’s cross includes two relics of Spanish ...

Now she must be replaced, but that process is complicated by the infighting in Schreiber-Beck's local political party, which I wrote about a week ago. Section 44-02-03.1 of the North Dakota ...

During the Civil War, the compound managed to avoid sustaining any major damage, like many of Louisiana's other large plantations. And even after enslaved people in the U.S. were emancipated ...

War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...

After years of gradual progress toward stability, a succession battle is pushing the country to the precipice of another full-blown civil war. By Abdi ... is the world’s youngest nation.

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved ... And what I'm doing in "Combee" is showing that with the U.S. Civil War pension files, we can actually ...

It’s not the first time Sudan’s had a famine. It’s not the first time Sudan’s had a civil war in the last 10 years, 20 years, 30 years,” he said. “As bad as it is—and it’s never be ...

Fiscal hawks are lashing out over what they say are the lack of Medicaid reforms in President Trump’s legislative package, which could thwart the House GOP’s goal of passing the legislation ...

The presentation will feature Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, portrayed by nationally acclaimed Civil War reenactor and historian Curt Fields, Ph.D., presenting “This Cruel War is Over ...

When the Civil War began in 1861, Starr King helped California raise $1.2 million, more than any state in the union, for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a precursor to the American Red Cross ...