Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Not long after the Civil War, hundreds of Black families lived and thrived in Forsyth County, owning their own land and creating wealth. But in 1912, that development came to a halt after a white ...

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

South African stage legend John Kani has become known for films such as “Black Panther,” and now stars in his play “Kunene ...

The Times has obtained a list of 53 Venezuelan men the Trump administration has put in a wartime prison built to hold Al ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

The U.N. food agency says one of its staffers detained last month by Houthi rebels in Yemen has died in prison.

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Sudan's foreign ministry has unveiled a post-war roadmap toward establishing democratic elections in a country ravaged by ...

He sat with them for an hour in prayer. Then he pulled his gun out and started shooting. And today our national numbness is wrapped in a Confederate flag. The young man who killed nine members of ...