A divided U.N. Security Council has voted to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan, where escalating political tensions have ...

A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves.

All of the essays are well written, deeply researched, and throw considerable light on hitherto obscure corners of the war. One, “Capitals and Communities in War and Revolution,” examines the wartime ...

A Kentucky farmer stumbled on one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found, fuelling the dreams of treasure ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865 ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

The drafters…said many times that the Citizenship Clause applied to virtually all children, not just the ‘babies of slaves,’” one legal expert said.

“Jessamine County is not New Orleans or Richmond or Charlottesville ... There is a cemetery with Civil War dead a few blocks away, but those interred there were from other Southern states yet died in ...

In the 160 years since, researchers have repeatedly sought to quantify the Civil War ... much of Richmond, Virginia — the capital of the Confederacy — during the war. For more than a century ...

Marsh III’s trailblazing career and his lifetime commitment to civil rights. Hundreds of people attended Saturday’s funeral at a Richmond-area church for Marsh, who died Jan. 23 at age 91 ...

SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky. A snow-covered stretch of ...