There’s some evidence that the migration fueled the civil war there, in which 80,000 people have died. “You had a lot of angry, unemployed men helping to trigger a revolution,” says Aaron ...

Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field. Read more about the Civil War at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history ...

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 ...

The escalating drone warfare has again highlighted the role of foreign actors in Sudan's civil conflict. "This is a war of technology," says Justin Lynch, managing director at Conflict Insights ...

After years of gradual progress toward stability, a succession battle is pushing the country to the precipice of another full-blown civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from Nairobi ...

Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper's Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and ...

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War. Ken Burns ... at his New York Gallery, Matthew Brady opened and exhibition of photographs entitled ...

The 14th Amendment, he said — long held to grant citizenship to anyone born ... Amendment was added to the Constitution after the Civil War, it was not, in fact, all about slavery.

The presentation will feature Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, portrayed by nationally acclaimed Civil War reenactor and historian Curt Fields, Ph.D., presenting “This Cruel War is Over ...

The planned move, in states like Texas and North Carolina, could spark a MAGA civil war—but the president’s most fervent acolytes see it as a necessary risk, despite the chance of far-right ...