Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents ...

Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black ...

A U.N.-backed global hunger watchdog warned Thursday that famine is spreading to more parts of Darfur in western Sudan. The U ...

Six months ago, Anne Ndarua’s only son went to Russia on the promise of a job as an electrical engineer. She says he was forced into military training and she no longer knows if he’s alive.

Myanmar’s military-backed party has won the recent election, according to final official figures. The Union Solidarity and ...