How have Germany following defeat in WWII and the U.S. south after losing the Civil War taught succeeding generations and ...

First Ladies and Civil Rights From the earliest slave-holding first ladies to later champions of civil rights, there is a complicated history of American first ladies and race relations.

Sudanese women tell Human Rights Watch that RSF paramilitaries, one side in a grueling civil war, are subjecting them to horrific sexual violence.

Six young women in green trousers, green jackets, green overseas caps marched into the White House one morning last week. There they presented the original copy of their Anthem of the Green ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing linking them to the Civil War.

The end may not be near, but the end is clear—according to those who have kept a close eye on Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, since a military coup toppled its civilian government in 2021. While ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg recently announced the discovery of four Confederate soldier skeletons, revealing a makeshift hospital from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg.

Civil War Reenactors Aren’t Just Play-Acting. They Expect a War. A visit to a battle reenactment in rural Virginia revealed some surprising views about U.S. politics—and broad pessimism about ...

Adam Gopnik reviews “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War,” by Michael Vorenberg, and “1861: The Lost Peace,” by Jay Winik.

The search for remains of formerly enslaved Black Union soldiers brutally murdered by angry Southerners as the Civil War was ending. Learn about Camp Nelson, KY, the military base where these ...

A24’s Civil War movie is now streaming on Max, if you feel like kicking off your weekend with a dose of war, violence, and anxiety. Who wouldn’t? Directed by Alex Garland, the filmmaker behind ...