To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.

The imposing stone facade of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, looms against the sky like ...

There’s something both fascinating and terrifying about standing in the shadow of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in ...

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could not imagine the remarkable discoveries they would find.

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

Taiwan is strengthening its military and society to fend off aggression from mainland China. In recent years, the people in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern ...