It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

While white generals are often at the center of Civil War archival research, Black Civil War veterans and their families ...

Martha S. Jones’ new memoir draws on genealogical research and memories shared by relatives ...

Every nation has a story that is retold with the words – it was the darkest time in our history. For the United States, that ...

Among the uncertainties facing Syria is the future of U.S. involvement in the country. Since 2014, Washington has backed a de ...

Local historian James Lutzweiler will present this month’s First Thursday History Program at the Jamestown Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Lutzweiler will discuss two seemingly unrelated topics: ...

Explore the pivotal battlegrounds that shaped a nation during the American Civil War. Each site tells a story of bravery and ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

The Russian war in Ukraine, the most devastating military engagement in Europe since 1945, has persisted for three years, and the prospect of its resolution — with the Trump administration openi ...

US President Donald Trump pushed back Tuesday against Kyiv's objections to being excluded from talks between the US and Russia in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending the war in eastern Ukraine.

President Trump on Tuesday appeared to blame Ukraine’s leaders for the three-year war with Russia ... “We were not invited to this Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia.

In the 1960s, during the civil rights movement, Dr. Miller-Jones organized and became the director of the Northern Student Movement in Boston, where he led the nation’s first citywide boycott of ...