Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

Sudan's civil war is starving millions of civilians, who rely largely on foreign aid that has come from the U.S. more than ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

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 ...

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

The Civil War reenactment group that is regularly featured throughout the area at events and ceremonies shooting its cannon ...

Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...

(Civil War envelopes were works of art—and propaganda ... in a 292-day-long campaign. People collect the bones of soldiers killed in the Battle of Cold Harbor. Within 30 minutes, the Union ...

An attack on an open market in the Sudanese city of Omdurman by a paramilitary group fighting against the country’s military killed some 54 people and wounded many more, health authorities said ...