As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible ...

The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of "blackbirding" endured horrific working conditi ...

The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational ...

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group fighting Sudan's army, is accused of committing mass sexual atrocities ...

Lincoln's chance came after the Union ... celebrated the news. In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed.

Sudanese women tell Human Rights Watch that RSF paramilitaries, one side in a grueling civil war, are subjecting them to horrific sexual violence.

From the perspective of white Southerners before the Civil War, abolitionism promoted false narratives that simply could not ...

The city has marked the Battle of Nashville for decades. Now, a new effort is underway to preserve Fort Negley.

White Southern myths about slavery, including a story about enslavers' Christmas benevolence, have helped prop up racism.

But in a new study, we tackled this challenge by focusing on one of the few groups of Americans for whom such information ...