Fights over how American history is taught. Labels of “communist” and “socialist” used to smear. Civil rights gains seen as a ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with key battles fought in places like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...

Baldwin said his thoughts were triggered after recently watching Ken Burns’s 1990 TV documentary series “The Civil War.” “In order for us to get anywhere, it doesn’t seem likely right no ...

A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...

​ Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with four Times Opinion columnists about how ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa’s youngest nation is again on the precipice of civil war. Tensions in the strife-torn country ...

President Donald Trump’s political and economic agenda dividing the nation is raising new concerns about a possible “civil war” among America ... figure of over 1.2 million background ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in ...

It remains here to remind us of the tragedy of slavery and the Civil War. The inscription “They ... filling seven or nine large” 5-foot-long, 2-foot-wide boxes. She said all the boxes were ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series ... including Russia, the United States, Iran and Israel. Now, just three months after insurgents overthrew the longtime Syrian ...