There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Vietnam veterans’ recordings, videos, photographs, drawings, letters and other documents are stored by the Library of ...

"Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now," the "30 Rock" star said in an Instagram video.

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

The world's youngest nation, South Sudan, could be on the brink of another civil war. At the heart of the tensions is a power struggle between the country's president and vice president.

The Sudanese Armed Forces announced the recapture of Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after nearly two years of ...

In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” ...

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors more than four days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, toppling buildings as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok ...

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.