A contractor for Amtrak removed the final ruins of an 1866 rail bridge from the Susquehanna River last month, despite ...

As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible ...

Students and professors at the University of Tennessee uncovered remnants of a Civil War trench in the heart of campus ...

The early 1800s mansion has been a school, the home of a member of Virginia’s Mason family and maybe even a wartime hospital.

Syria’s GDP plummets from $60B before civil war to $39.5B last ... Despite the Caesar Act imposed by the US on Syria, which sanctioned Assad for war crimes against Syrians under the first ...

US map showing balance of payments for all 50 ... An 1869 Supreme Court ruling, opens new tab, shortly after the U.S. Civil War ended, dampens prospects for any state’s ability to break away.

The sudden downfall of longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the hands of a rapid rebel offensive has brought a dramatic new turn to Syria's nearly 14-year civil war. While opponents of the ...

US President Joe Biden released a strategy for countering anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate, up sharply since the start of the war in Gaza, calling for urgent, continued work to reduce discrimination ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following ...

CNN mapped how rebel groups captured several key cities, cutting off pro-regime forces and successfully toppling Assad’s ...

The researchers analyzed data from all censuses conducted over the years 1850 to 1880, allowing them to track population changes before and ... New Estimates of US Civil War mortality from full ...

The primary group behind the offensive is believed to be Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (known as HTS or Tahrir al-Sham), which emerged at the outset of the Syrian civil war. It is an offshoot of an Al ...