Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

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

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

The Civil War is well known for great battles, famous generals and large casualties. But there was a lesser known side of the war, the guerrilla war where bands of civilians and soldiers joined forces ...

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

The annual gathering traditionally draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of re-enactors from several states helping tell ...

Sudan’s ruinous civil war is approaching its third year, leaving a legacy of malnutrition, massive population displacement ...

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

On her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo calling for a report on how the Department of Justice ...

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

Texas is one of the few states that were once independent countries, and is quite proud of that. But just 16 years after ...

It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...