Bennett Place State Historic Site in NC commemorates Civil War surrender and slavery's end with a two-day event.

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...

At mid-month, the royal governor of Massachusetts, a military man, planned to confiscate the gunpowder and weapons rumored to ...

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

Religion has been a driver of violence, as demonstrated in several incidents across the country. 25 According to the ...

Cannes is back: The 78th French film festival returns May 13-24 with a wave of world premieres that will set the tone for the ...

JURIST Staff, US Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983-2009) between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist Tamil militant and political ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WJZY) — The Carolina Theatre is alive with the sound of music Friday night for the first time since 1978. It ...

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.

The head of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces admitted in a speech to fighters on Sunday that the group had ...