Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns that focus on the unique experiences, trials, and triumphs of Black ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

"If you had enough teeth in your head and could hold a musket, you were fine," Bonnie Tsui, the author of "She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers in the Civil War," told Smithsonian Magazine in 2011.

In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have fought alongside George Washington.

This is a ceremony to remember the “Horrid Murder” of King Charles I in 1649, and carried out by King’s Army of the English Civil War Society. The soldiers of this modern recreation of the Royalist ...

Spain's King Alfonso XIII aided families of missing WWI soldiers Palace archive keep thousands of letters of soldiers' relatives Letters are testimony of war's devastation MADRID, Feb 13 (Reuters ...