To fill in the gaps in Nelson Shephard’s biography, Lynch enlisted the help of Steve Kochersperger, a USPS research analyst with a personal stake in the Civil War. An ancestor, Lt. Col.

Aarti Kohli, an advocate for immigrant rights and executive director of Asian Law Caucus (ALC), the US's first legal aid and civil rights ... are ending up in prison camps in Nepal being flown ...

The state bought the land from local farmers, drew up an impressive grid of streets, and started selling lots. By 1820, Cahawba was Alabama’s first permanent capital city, with lawmakers meeting in a ...

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.The high court acted in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union ... most recently during World War II to hold Japanese-American ...

Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes, was finally laid to rest 80 years after he died in a prisoner of war camp ...

U.S. Army Pvt. Harland J. Hennessey of Boonville was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II.

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

For two years now, Sudan has been wracked by a civil war between ... are fleeing not only war, but hunger as well. Last year, famine was officially declared in a refugee camp in North Darfur.

The Salvadoran prison, where Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held, keeps inmates tightly confined with little ...

Photo: BIRN/Islam Berisha The Basic Court of Pristina on Wednesday sentenced a Serb former prison guard, Dragisa Milenkovic, to seven years’ imprisonment for war crimes against civilians during ...

“More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all the hallmarks of a concentration camp,” Smith wrote. “The Trump administration has unlawfully deported a group it finds highly ...