Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Kings and Generals launches its animated historical documentary series on the American Civil War by asking the essential ...

The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday asked two federal judges to order the Trump administration not to deport any ...

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some work. For families of the disappeared, it means justice delayed or denied.

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War ... the northern public no interest) to interfere with slavery where it already existed in the southern states.

New alliances in Sudan’s civil war risk sparking a regional conflict ... Sudan’s army for decades and controls swaths of the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, both on the border with ...

The Supreme Court early Saturday halted the administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport migrants ...

Tharaphi Than, Northern Illinois University (THE CONVERSATION ... and an ensuing government crackdown. The resulting civil war – now into its fourth year – has seen 6,000-plus people killed ...

The stark internal divide between the country’s wealthier northern region ... see the country split into two states in 2011. The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated ...