Boritt was born in Budapest in 1940 and survived World War II, although relatives were killed in the Auschwitz Nazi death ...

Reading about history is something that people either love or avoid because there’s a fear it can be boring, bias and revised. One of my favorite genres in literature, however, ...

Hundreds of thousands are believed to have been killed since April 2023. LONDON -- Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim Mohammed was one of the last doctors left in El Fasher, a city in Sudan’s beleaguered Darfur ...

Two Civil War battles occurred at Lafayette’s Pinhook Bridge in 1863, with Confederate forces burning the bridge twice to slow Union advances The Battle of Vermilion Bayou on April 17, 1863 saw ...

ATLANTA — A civil rights leader who marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. Bishop Bill C. Harris died on Dec. 9 after a long battle with cancer, his family announced Wednesday.

As U.S.-Venezuela tensions rise, sociologist and historian Emmanuel Guerisoli wrote in Spanish in Latinoamerica21 that a civil war is "very likely" if the United States tries to unilaterally oust ...

Around 620,000 men died during the Civil War — roughly two percent of the United States' population at the time. After the battle of Cold Harbor in the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was called a ...

“I never expect to be fully believed,” one Union veteran remarked at the end of the Civil War, “when I tell of the horrors of Spotsylvania.” Indeed, the Battle of Spotsylvania was one of the most ...

Paramilitary groups have intensified an offensive on a crucial region bordering Darfur, prompting fears of another massacre. By Pranav Baskar The U.N.’s top human rights official warned on Thursday of ...

The Louisiana state historic marker near the Pinhook Bridge says two battles took place there in 1863: "Bayou Vermilion," it says. "Battle of Pinhook Bridge April 17, 1863. Battle of Bayou Vermilion ...

For more than a century, the Ionia County Courthouse has been home to a piece of American Civil War history — a battle flag sewn by local women and carried by men who formed a volunteer Union regiment ...

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