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

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Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

The character of warfare has changed over millennia, but it has always remained a fundamentally human endeavor. What will ...

The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at ...

At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...

Dr. Katherine Lennard, Frockt Family Chair and Associate Professor of History, hopes to build on this understanding to enrich ...

In the last few days we’ve heard what sound like the opening salvos of a Democratic Party civil war. After losing two of the last three presidential elections to Donald Trump, self-reflection is ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the ...