How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.
The cannons roared. The soldiers charged. Hurrah! The soldiers died. We threw dirt clods at one another; pinecones were hand ...
From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...
A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...
In addition to the 70-year anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Rosa Parks Museum is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It opened Dec. 1, 2000. Donna M. Beisel, director of museum ...
TWO American soldiers and a US civilian have been killed in an ambush by a lone ISIS gunman in Syria. The US-led forces were ...
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Two years after a major rebel offensive left much of Myanmar's borderlands in resistance hands, the junta has found its ...
Keiran King, head of humanitarian at War Child, gives the Big Issue a rare on-the-ground insight amid war in Sudan.
Guardian investigation reveals at least 119 direct attacks on hospitals and delivery wards since start of wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan ...
Friday marks the 40th anniversary of the crash in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada that took the lives of 248 Fort Campbell ...