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

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South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, fell into a bloody civil war soon after gaining independence in 2011, as forces aligned with Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fought those loyal to Machar ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an unjust war—in their case, Vietnam. The group soon escalated to bombing government buildings and ...

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Other architectural highlights include the 1907 schoolhouse containing a number of exhibits and artifacts, and the 1887 Christ Church Episcopal ... port during the Civil War and was days away ...

The sound of mortars and artillery shells is a constant across Burma’s ethnic states, and after nearly 80 years of war, the people ... aid worker or civil government leader — offer no salary.

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. The small incursion targets the Belgorod ...

"If Putin is once again struggling to understand who he needs to engage with to seriously move toward ending this war, maybe he should just pop some pills to kickstart his brain activity ...

Following the Civil War, the federal government began taking a larger role in education with the creation of the Department of the Interior and the Office of Education throughout the 1860s. Similarly, ...