One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

U.S. military bases around the world have celebrated Black History Month and similar events for decades. Now, Hegseth says "Identity Months" are "Dead at DoD." ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, she was part of a team that led the national “Driving While Black and Brown” campaign to fight police profiling. Alexander is ...

Arbel Yehoud is achingly close to freedom, but her face is a study of shadow and terror. She is dwarfed by dozens of masked ...

The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground ...

Prior to his inauguration, Trump threatened to use "economic force" to compel Canada ... and then the 1848 Mexican-American War. The end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865 reignited those fears.

Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...

dodging a hail of bullets to escape forced conscription into a war which has persecuted his community for years. Now the military – and the rebels they are fighting who want independence – are ...

It accuses Congo's military of joining forces with Hutu-led militias it says ... Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put ...