Maimonides saw that the injury inflicted by circumcision was a painful loss to the individual, not some surgical cure in search of moral and physical disease. It is a literal sacrifice, a choice to ...

As they tell it on the Tug River, the war between ... the news that the civil war was on reached the West Virginia-Kentucky mountains. All the McCoys shouldered their guns and enlisted for the ...

Part two will run Feb. 20. For abolitionists and enslaved Americans, the Civil War meant far more than unification, rather it was a desperate struggle for freedom and equality. It was in fact a ...

What began as a dispute over the firing of an employee with the Guam Offices of Homeland Security and Civil Defense has spiraled into a web of accusations involving agency control, the role of the ...

Wellington Farm Park near Grayling will host a Civil War reenactment on June 20-22, featuring reenactors from across the ...

But when the Civil War began in 1861, members of the Guard left to join both the Union and the Confederacy. The Lexington Rifles had already organized with other Fayette County companies to form ...

California was never a hotbed of Civil War action, but the Golden State — and the Bay Area in particular — played a major role. The riches of the Gold Rush didn’t just line the pockets of ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to ...

In 2023, President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government “condemned and rejected outright” the remarks of then Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, marking the civil war anniversary as ...

That includes the iconic “Battle of Cedar Creek,” painted by Vermonter and Civil War veteran Julian Scott. Scott is known for his realistic artwork showing the psychological anguish and ...

War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...

Alternate history writing looks at "what if" scenarios; What if the Soviet Union won the Cold War? What if the Roman Empire never fell? It's not just interesting escapism; it also allows readers ...