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

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 ...

Death and the American Civil War. We’re talking about the costs of the war Maxwell—director of “Gods and Generals” and “Gettysburg”—has made a career of interpreting. “All of the ...

Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... While the cause of anesthetic death in the 1860s was not understood, we now know that when ...

Things came to a head in 1860 when the northerner ... itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated, the ...

Something like Thucydides’ ‘stasis’ is now infecting every aspect of American life ... It seems the country is back to 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, rather than in 2018, during the ...