Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

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

The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that pitted the Republican government against Spanish Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco from 1936-1939. Families were torn apart as people took sides.

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

A.J. Schenkman’s plate always seems to be full. Not only is he a seventh-grade social studies teacher at John G. Borden ...

Everything Trump has said he was going to do, he has attempted to do. It's time to lay aside the ‘this is just negotiating tactics.' He's going to negotiate us right down into full fascism.” ...

From frontline dispatches to government-aligned memoirs, a deep dive into how Indian correspondents documented the LTTE conflict—and why the full story may still remain untold.

The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.

The Orchard of Lost Souls is a 2013 novel by the Somali author Nadifa Mohamed. It is set in Hargeisa, Somalia on the eve of ...

The site of a former heiau and the palace complex of fearsome Chief Kahekili, the Hawaiian-speaking Christian church was ...