During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

The ordinance dictated the rules for territories to become states and required that, as a necessity of “good government and ...

The first was a complaint filed under the new Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act, which outlaws the ...

Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

The remark disgusted some Foreign Service officers, infuriated others, and displeased even those who were looking forward to the new administration.” So began what — until now — was the largest purge ...

The human toll is staggering. We and our partners are struggling to assess the full extent of the situation,” a United ...

The Trump administration’s decision to close the US Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from ...

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

Butler historian Bill May will speak at the Monday, Feb. 17, meeting of the Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Roundtable in Hampton. At 7 p.m., May will present “Capt. Thomas McConnell & Freed Slave ...