In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

Howard Lambert, the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet sympathizers were subject to the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.

The coastal region of Syria, where the violence has taken place, is the heartland of the Alawite minority, and a stronghold ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's "51st state" taunts are far from the first time Canadians have contemplated the idea of an ...

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.

For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump ...

The battlefield extended with the introduction of field artillery from the 1880s. Even then, as Hess points out, among infantry possessing modern handheld weapons with longer range and higher firing ...

Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...