The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
EU civil war fears as anti-Brexit Guy Verhofstadt calls for 'United States of Europe'
The Remoaner MEP warned that Europe must evolve to survive or "be on the menu of imperial empires or China, Russia and the US ...
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
‘Lincoln’s Peace’ Review: The War That Wouldn’t Die
Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the ...
To justify its agenda, Team Trump points to a ‘war’ that doesn’t exist
Attorney General Pam Bondi seemed eager to expand the definition of “weapon of mass destruction,” which was emblematic of a ...
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Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undue hard-won gains
WASHINGTON (AP) — The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at least the Civil War — have long been ...