The president of Northwestern Bell Telephone was summoned to Washington to assemble the first plans for Cold War civilian ...

Michael King shares his story of selling water bottles as an eight-year-old in war-torn DR Congo to the boxing in the UK.

Before he directed the Oscar-winning Conclave, Edward Berger directed the gripping anti-war film All Quiet on the Western ...

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says U.S. President Donald Trump will ultimately respect Canada's sovereignty and be ...

In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...

President Trump signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Department of Education on Thursday. The idea isn't a ...

This is how democracies end — when independent voices of authority are purged and a pluralistic civil society is fractured.

DAMASCUS, Syria — Germany’s foreign minister reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, 13 years after it was shut in the ...

From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of heroes of the civil rights movement, these books show what life was like before civil rights, why ...

Preservation work has begun on a Frederick County farmhouse that predates the Civil War and sits on land where an influential ...

In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...