(THE CONVERSATION) During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ironclads, these boats were about 50 yards long, carried 75 tons of armor on their hulls and ...

The Philadelphia school district failed to show it protected Jewish students from harassment despite “repeated, extensive ...

A coalition of Syrian rebels say they have toppled the government of President Bashar al-Assad and captured the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Part of the Lincoln Memorial’s vast “undercroft,” which for more than 100 years has been its dark basement, is now halfway ...

Hosted by Daughters and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Proceeds will benefit First Nature Ranch ... Linda is an ...

They were politicians, businesspeople, athletes, artists and entertainers. This year, we said goodbye to such beloved figures ...

In a controversial verdict, the football star-turned-actor was acquitted in the criminal trial but later found civilly liable in the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Years later, he ...

A fuel depot exploded in the central Italian region of Tuscan on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring nine, ...

In a historic moment, Joe Biden becomes the first U.S. president to visit Angola, marking a shift in Angola’s foreign ...

When it comes to traveling in the United States, there are plenty of popular destinations that come to mind, such as New ...

When Patita Pavana Das was a sophomore at Indiana State University, he considered his life pretty typical: geoscience student ...

His holy grail, though, is a map that can bring him to Honolulu in 1868 so ... and a 19th-century pre–Civil War plantation in ...