With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...

In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at precisely the moment when Russia, having just lost the Crimean War, was ...

Where, when and how did civilians organize during the Syrian civil war that started in the aftermath of the Arab Spring in ...

The Gaza media office has provided a range of statistics on casualties of Israel's war in Gaza as a ceasefire in the battered enclave holds.

Most people associate secession with the Civil War but idea of disuniting the United States has crept into national ...

As a truce took hold Sunday in the Gaza Strip, two men used the same metaphor to describe how they felt. “The weight on my ...

Following the second election of Donald Trump, I discovered that several of my acquaintances voted for the twice impeached ...

Israel says the Gaza ceasefire will begin at 11:15 a.m. local time. The announcement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ...

Harry Jaffa suggested that Americans should adopt a “civil religion,” with Lincoln as a quasi-divine figure. This, of course, ...