Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Green Bay forced 31 takeaways during the regular season but failed to get one in the postseason. Thanks to four giveaways — three by the offense and one by the special teams — the Packers lost the ...

Indian lawyer and political ethicist the Mahatma Gandhi and South African Anglican bishop and anti-apartheid leader Desmond Tutu. Over the centuries, activists have used civil resistance to call ...

And as human civilization progressed further, the tools of war improved alongside it. One of the forms that war takes is one that happens intra-state, between people of a single country. Civil wars ...

In the aftermath, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, condemned Assad’s fall as a foreign-orchestrated conspiracy, a framing that reflects Tehran’s efforts to preserve its image as a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a ...

Smalls helped the Union for the rest of the Civil War. After the South lost, Smalls went on to serve in the South Carolina House and Senate before being elected to the U.S. House. He bought his ...

After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war ...