Economic policies have profound effects on ... to assess the respective roles of greed and grievance as drivers of civil war. Opportunities for the plunder of natural resources were found to ...

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

Historians discuss labor relations between former slaves and former masters after the Civil War. Ed Ayers ... Eric Foner: [The] larger economic context... is very disadvantageous.

“Exports multiplied from an all time low of $47.7m in November 1991 [just before the end of the Salvadoran Civil War] to almost 10 times higher at $400m in December 2016. In my personal opinion, the ...

MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd, Thursday on "The ReidOut," compared Trump voters to poor white people who sided with slave owners during the Civil War against their own economic interests ...