Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

(THE CONVERSATION) Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being uncovered in liberated areas.

(THE CONVERSATION) For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an unprecedented effort to roll back democracy and the ...

The fragile ceasefire has mostly held since it started on Jan. 19. During the first phase of the ceasefire, Hamas has committed to freeing a total of 33 hostages captured in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The Rufus Barringer Civil War Round Table will meet at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 20, at the Civic Club, on the corner of ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Elon Musk refrained from attacking the MAGA figure over H1-B visas, but he draws the line at lightly criticizing DOGE.

Americans have celebrated Black History Month each February. This week, explore the history of Ripon’s early African-American ...

Multimedia artist Khaled Sabsabi, a one-time hip-hop performer, has been selected to represent the country at the Venice ...