Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

From USAID to the U.S. federal payment system, Musk is spearheading plans to audit and cut multiple government agencies ...

On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...

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

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

The International Context, a new digital archive that demonstrates the far-reaching involvement of European nations in the ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

SINGAPORE—Chinese officials are building a list of U.S. technology companies that can be targeted with antitrust probes and other tools, hoping to influence the tech executives who are heavily ...

This was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute's 2024 annual conference ... Veteran journalist Marvin Kalb discussed his new book "A Different Russia: Khrushchev & Kennedy on a ...

Donald Trump wants to negotiate an end to the Russo-Ukrainian war. But for a cease-fire not to boomerang back as an even bigger calamity, Moscow must come to terms with a hard truth — ending its ...

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says ending the war means security guarantees Says talks can take any format if guarantees in place Zelenskiy again rules out elections under martial law Feb 9 (Reuters ...

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