Failed uprising remembered 340 years after battle
A new exhibition telling the story of a 17th Century uprising aims to explore the tragic aftermath of the revolt and its ...
Revolutionary War spy who was also a slave will get statue in Virginia
NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory ...
The Forward1d
Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
Post Bulletin1d
From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and beyond, one SE Minnesota family served America
For the first time in 50 years, three brothers — John J. Casseday, George Casseday and Samuel Casseday — got together. All three, along with a fourth brother (and, by the way, their father) fought in ...
'Rebel on Main' dissects the legacy of a Kentucky Confederate monument wearing a Union hat
In the podcast, a professor at Asbury University explores the complicated history of a Confederate Civil War monument wearing ...
City Journal2d
The Rise of Civil Terrorism
“Unity of Fields,” the recently rebranded group formerly known as Palestine Action US—the new name ... As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an ...
Military.com3d
'The Unkillable Soldier' Who Kept Fighting Despite Losing an Eye and Hand in World War I
Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...
The Independent17d
Zelensky accepts US proposal for 30-day ceasefire in crunch Saudi Arabia talks
US secretary of state Marco Rubio said he would now take the offer to the Russians, and that the “ball is now in Moscow’s court”. “The president wanted this war to end yesterday ...
The Irish Times17d
US says ‘ball in Russia’s court’ after Ukraine agrees to 30-day ceasefire
The ball’s now in their court.” Mr Rubio said US president Donald Trump’s “number one” objective was to end Europe’s biggest war in 80 years and that “today, Ukraine has taken a ...
PBS17d
Ugandan special forces deploy to South Sudan to protect government as civil war fears grow
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...
Newsweek17d
Syria's Civil War Takes Another Deadly, Dramatic Turn
Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series ... including Russia, the United States, Iran and Israel. Now, just three months after insurgents overthrew the longtime Syrian ...