New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

Jeff Landry earlier this month attempted to remove civil service protections for hundreds of engineers and attorneys across state government, a broader effort to give Louisiana elected officials ...

Government document that details the civil charges against Mahmoud Khalil does not include written evidence from immigration ...

but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term When protests over the Israel-Hamas war took root on Columbia ...

But, if al-Sharaa and HTS do not move quickly to improve the economy, which contracted 84 percent during the war; if they seek to impose Islamic law—not an unreasonable concern given HTS’s ...

In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana — a 260-foot-long wooden steamboat — burst into flames along the Mississippi River. Built in ...

All over south Louisiana, and indeed across the country, people honor their dead. At historical sites, battlefields, military ...

A day after at least 250 people protested at Federal Plaza the arrest and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, civil ...

Learn about what's happening across the most pressing civil liberties issues of our time, and what you can do. Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal ...