Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...

Many pivotal developments in the course of history did not start in palace halls or parliaments, but rather on battlefields where soldiers and warriors faced deadly opposition and risked their lives ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

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

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

Now soldiers who have served in Gaza appear to face a growing risk of arrest themselves over allegations of war crimes in Israel's assault on the besieged Palestinian enclave. In a case that has ...

Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...

That founding date coincides with the end of the Civil War ... Further, soldiers who returned from war had seen a new world outside of York County, many having learned English versus their first ...

North Korea has deployed some 12,000 troops to aid Russia’s war effort ... Since the captured soldiers did not speak English, Russian or Ukrainian, they were interviewed with the help of ...

Civil contractors wishing to protect themselves, their assets, personnel or project sites from the harassment of thugs increasingly hire soldiers and station them permanently on the construction ...

Ukraine has found “irrefutable evidence” of North Korea’s involvement in Russia’s war against his ... Since the captured soldiers did not speak English, Russian or Ukrainian, they were ...

A video released last week shows Ukrainian authorities interrogating two North Korean soldiers captured in the ... governs the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs), requiring humane treatment ...