Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

It signaled the start of America’s Revolution — and we won! Music played, the choir sang, and we gleefully ran next door to ...

Hours before the first shots of the American Revolution rang out, 700 British soldiers stationed in Boston mobilized under cover of darkness, hoping to stop the war in its tracks. After overpowering a ...

A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the ...

Paul Revere was immortalized by Longfellow's poem and became an American icon. William Dawes, the other midnight rider, is ...

"It Feels a Shame to be Alive," a poem written in response to Dickinson feeling guilty that she was alive when so many had died during the Civil War. "I think it's a timeless piece," says Snyder.

Libya today is in the midst of a civil war—one as confusing as it is ferocious. Atrocities against civilians are mounting. The collapse of the Libyan state and the country's division is possible.

An abolitionist, Longfellow wrote the poem as a call to action to northerners against the threats of the south to secede from the union the year before the Civil War. Advance registration for the ...

In addition to the civil war that the people of Myanmar have endured since 2021 when the military coup overturned the elections, Francis—who visited the country in 2017—recalled that the ...

New Delhi, Mar 28 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday said words of a poem recited in the background of a clip uploaded by Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi did not promote disharmony or hatred but ...

Was distilled in a head that so badly wanted to undo me, It was as if she disinvented all the wars that festered and boiled At the edges of humanity for that sole purpose. But they are the ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...