Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

A renowned cartographer, the Paris-born Rekacewicz is well aware of his medium’s capacity to transform narratives for good ...

Pyrrhus arrived in Italy in 280 BC with 20,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, 2,000 archers, 500 slingers, and 20 war elephants.

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Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War remains a defining rupture in American history. Not only in terms of ...

The evening news brought the Vietnam War into American living rooms, but once the news was over, so was the war. Prime-time ...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry called it a “terrorist attack,” and surveillance footage showed a car exploding as Lt. Gen.

A senior Central Intelligence Agency official’s son who had joined the Russian military was killed last year during an ...

The Bible doesn’t describe Jesus being nailed to a cross. Telling the story of Christ’s death, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John simply say that Roman soldiers crucified him. They don’t say how. Each of ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...