From the beep of our metal detectors to the moment we unearth our finds, each episode brings you along on a treasure hunt ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.

Blackburn testified that he knew of families in his neighborhood that were kicked out of their churches in front of entire congregations because of their political affiliations.

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...