Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

I worked hard to fulfill my dream, and thankfully I was successful. Some 7,000 copies are used at Seder tables throughout the ...

Civil defense ... from the map, is very real in the Baltic states. They wonder why other countries don’t get it,” she said. “The Finns, for the entire Cold War period, took defense seriously ...

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

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

Vijay Thanigasalam, a member of the Provincial Parliament who fled Sri Lanka during the decades-long civil war when he was a child, authored the bill (archived link). The South Asian island nation ...

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 ...

South Korea has established diplomatic relations with Syria’s new Islamist government months after longtime leader Bashar ...

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Area history buffs are encouraged to visit the annual Ohio Civil War/World War I & II Show at the Richland County Fairgrounds in Mansfield. Experience living history encampments at the largest ...