1837: Michigan becomes the 26th state of the USA. 1841: Hong Kong is proclaimed as a sovereign territory of Britain. 1857: Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama, is born in Tibet. 1861: Louisiana secedes ...

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

It’s not just a cruel irony that, as many have observed, Martin Luther King Jr. would have opposed Donald Trump and likely been out protesting somewhere today had he been alive. That’s obvious. The ...

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries, and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the U.S. government came to a violent head in the 1850s.

The stunning downfall of Syria’s longtime leader, Bashar Assad, closed a chapter in the country’s decadelong civil war. But it also ... the highest mountain in Syria, and advanced along ...

PETER BERG (DIRECTOR) We discovered the Mountain ... away from the Civil War. This is an incredibly violent period that ...

Three local men are among the hundreds pardoned Monday by President Donald Trump on his first day in office for convictions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Trump commuted the sentences of ...

At one point, the settlement seemed poised “to become the city of destiny,” one historian wrote. But it didn’t last.

The first, Grover Cleveland, is descended from a man who was reputedly kidnapped from the Channel Islands of Guernsey as a ...

“This is how we started: chaos, war, guns, violence,” Newman told press ... We’re seven years away from the Civil War. This is an incredibly violent period that hasn’t really stopped.

The Flying Tigers were the first American Volunteer Group of the Republic of China’s Air Force under the command of US ...