Although he appealed to international law in this passage, he was pessimistic that war is ever compatible with it.

The Titanic's sinking claimed over 1,500 lives. There were well-known people among the casualties.

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that ...

The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that pitted the Republican government against Spanish Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco from 1936-1939. Families were torn apart as people took sides.

I have a book here.'” In his latest book, “Hispanic Americans in the Civil War,” Schenkman devotes chapters to eight prominent Hispanic Americans who served in the Civil War for both the ...

and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War.” I took the book home with me for two reasons. First of all, I liked the sharp focus. The main narrative covers only about five months, from November ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Union Army force until it was ineffectual. If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and profusion ...

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

We have obtained more than a dozen internal documents and conducted interviews with a half-dozen employees, who confirm that the university has flagrantly violated the principles of the Civil Rights ...