The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

The tiny central Illinois village of New Salem, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did ...

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors more than three days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck ...

Rescue workers, sniffer dogs, paramedics and millions of dollars in aid have begun arriving in Myanmar after a massive ...

Since Israel and Hamas went to war, reporters and editors at The New York Times have closely covered ... with the reduction coming after an Israeli tank shell hit a U.N. compound.

At least three hospitals in the country are out of service, according to the World Health Organisation, three days after a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus ...

Between the Civil War and the end of World War II, the Midwest transitioned from a rural economy to an industrial agricultural economy as the Midwest rapidly industrialized.

India launched Operation Brahma to aid rescue and relief work in Myanmar, pitching in with tonnes of ration, tents, medicines ...