The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Although perhaps not the most important post in the Civil War, Holding Charleston by the Bridle gives us some interesting insights into America coast defense engineering and life in a coastal fort ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

As Michael Vorenberg notes in “Lincoln’s Peace,” the end of a war does not necessarily signal the outbreak of peace. This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WLNE) — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is investigating 45 higher learning institutions under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, with the ...

The extraordinary civil war engulfing one of Britain’s greatest cathedrals A rebellion has broken out among Winchester Cathedral’s congregation, but a new review is unlikely to allay fears of ...

The BBC accompanies the civil defence group as they respond to violence in Syria's coastal region. Many belong to former President Bashar al-Assad's sect, which was targeted in mass killings.

As the civil war intensified, militant groups emerged across the country and treated Alawites as affiliates of Assad and his key military allies, Russia and Iran. Syria’s new interim government ...

Syria’s civil war had supposedly ended three months earlier, on Dec. 8, but none of the country’s heavily armed groups have fully lowered their guard since then. True peace feels particularly ...