To grasp how bad things are in Lebanon, consider that Syria—where war and tyranny created the world’s largest refugee ...

But most Black Civil War soldiers never saw combat. Instead, they worked on U.S. fortifications, largely because officials believed Black men were better suited than white men for the arduous manual ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

As wars sow pain and loss around the world, poet Walt Whitman's devotion to the wounded during the U.S. Civil War should inspire acts of compassion today.

"It's amazing that they were still there and we found them," said Tom Keating, coordinator for the Missing In America Project ...

From the end of the Civil War in 1865 until 1923, seven of the 12 elected U.S. presidents were born in Ohio — Ulysses S.

In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

From the end of the Civil War in 1865 until 1923, seven of the 12 elected U.S. presidents were born in Ohio — Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley ...

Lawyers for immigrants said they have been preparing for months for the possibility of large-scale workplace raids, roundups ...

Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing was one of only two men ever to be named “general of the Armies of the United States” — ...