Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe ...

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Over the last 15 years, the Middle East has been racked by war, destruction, and displacement. Hundreds of thousands of ...

The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

According to the Vatican agency Fides, the priest’s body was found by some members of the faithful around 6 a.m. local time, ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections,” lashing out after the Ukrainian president said Trump was being influenced by Russian disinformation ...

Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series continues with a new deep dive into the American Civil War, ...

In a world increasingly shaped by secularism and scientific empiricism, a paradox emerges: the enduring belief that history has direction, meaning and purpose—a secularized form of providentialism.

The civil war raging in Sudan today has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and triggered genocidal acts. It also ...

Once-thriving landmarks like the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval Crusader castle of Crac des Chevaliers remain ...