Charlestonians and visitors can enjoy a new driving tour of Revolutionary War sites on James Island, including well-known ...

A contractor for Amtrak removed the final ruins of an 1866 rail bridge from the Susquehanna River last month, despite ...

What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...

The grave of Owen Brown, abolitionist and son of John Brown, who led a raid at Harpers Ferry, Va. to end slavery.

Late in the evening of May 24, 1856, abolitionist John Brown, five of his sons, and three other Free State compatriots ...

Though the raid failed, many historians agree it lit the match that helped provoke the Civil War. While John Brown was arrested and executed, and eight of his man were killed in the raid ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...

Brown, the son of John Brown—one of America’s most prominent abolitionist leaders—was the last surviving member of the 1859 Harpers Ferry raid ... prelude to the Civil War.

More than 10,000 civil servants jobs could be cut as part of Labour's push for 5% savings across its departments, a government source has said. Headcount in the civil service topped 513,000 this ...

A senior civil servant has written to two ministers to say he was "badly let down" by a failure to clarify the delay in a ferry tender process wasn't down to a mistake he made on social media.

WARSAW — Poland’s prime minister said Tuesday that negotiations over Russia’s war in neighboring Ukraine could start in the winter, as his country prepares to take over the rotating ...

The primary group behind the offensive is believed to be Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (known as HTS or Tahrir al-Sham), which emerged at the outset of the Syrian civil war. It is an offshoot of an Al ...