To have the weighted bookends for the start and the conclusion of the war does serve a purpose. To create a clean common narrative about the most divisive chapter in American history makes the ...

The musicians of the Union and Confederate armies provided strong memories of the homes left behind for the battlefield. Fact or Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard (03:36) What Does a ...

The ACLU warned "we’re getting very close to" a "constitutional crisis" after Trump carried out deportations despite a ...

Hughes was one of the nearly 4 million men, women and children enslaved during the American Civil ... medical aid, education and land to the newly freed slaves and Southerners displaced by the war.

ALTOONA, Pa. — Penn State Altoona’s history and nursing programs will host a trip to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland, on Saturday, April 12. Participants will tour the ...

Two Harvard Medical School doctors filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for removing research on a federal website referring to LGBTQ+ health.

Under political pressure, a few years ago, the NCAA hastily scaled back its own long-term, previous policy that offered a clear path to inclusion for trans women in college who were receiving ...

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...