While most remember the land battles of the American Civil War, the conflict at sea played a crucial role. In this animated ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

From the founding of the country, the various states of the United States have had rivalries. Of course, we all know these ...

From the devastating impacts inflicted upon Myanmar to the reshaping of global commerce, join us in Geographical's May issue, out ...

This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...

South Korea ... ties with North Korea.” Cho during the talks conveyed Seoul’s willingness to support Syria’s reconstruction efforts following the 13-year civil war, a process that he said ...

South Korea sent two helicopters ... The DMZ is a no-man’s land about 30 miles north of Seoul that was established in the 1953 Korean War Armistice Agreement to provide distance between the ...

South Korea has established diplomatic relations with Syria’s new Islamist government months after longtime leader Bashar ...

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo) South Korea now has diplomatic relations with all 191 U.N. member states except for its war-divided rival, North Korea.