Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the ...

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, ...

Today, this question bitterly divides the Jewish people. But it is not the first time it has done so. Passover begins this ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

The world's youngest republic, and one of its poorest, is on the brink of returning to a civil war as its unelected state leaders prepare for another armed showdown. With 57% of the population facing ...

Georgia marks the 36th anniversary of the April 9, 1989 massacre of pro-independence demonstrators in Tbilisi by the Soviet ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - In efforts to remember and promote Civil War history, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) held their 29th annual encampment at the Museum of the Kansas ...

ISMET FATIH CANCAR was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies ...