When General Wharton’s great-great granddaughter, Sue Bell, and her parents were selling the home in the 1980s and rummaging ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

In keeping with tradition, one dramatic beat of the presidential inauguration in January was the Naval Academy Glee Club’s ...

President Trump has provided a potential way for the Russia and Ukraine war to have a way out and a way out of a trade war with targeted sanctions. Oil prices have reached a three-week high due to ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

That’s it for this week, so let’s get to it! Here’s the Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz — this time with excerpts and utterances from March 16 to 22. Missed last week? You can find it ...

They are also ready to consider alternative approaches to end the war. Britain and France believe this starts with continuing to build up Ukraine’s armed forces to create a deterrent to stop ...

These Irish and Irish American quotes perfectly illustrate the long, complicated, and inspiring history of the Irish in America. The Irish have a long, complicated, and inspiring history in ...