Bubbling under the surface for decades and then raging for four years, the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff thanks to a gesture of good will from Yankees to the Old South in 1913 ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

At least 70 people were killed after a drone strike targeted the last functioning hospital in the besieged capital of Sudan’s ...

Fighting around Sudan ‘s largest oil refinery set the sprawling complex ablaze, satellite data analyzed by The Associated ...

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...

After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war ...