Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...

Many men in history are brought high by their ambitions, only to fall from their vices. Louis Wigfall, an attorney, legislator, and later U.S. senator from Texas, had many advantages ...

The idea of Canada or parts of Canada joining the United States has been a recurring theme in Canada’s history. This was ...

As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second inauguration on Jan. 20, thousands of miles away in Nigeria his ...

Louis Wigfall would represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, but his short fuse and alcoholism eventually wrecked his life and ...

During the American Civil War, 11 states seceded from the United States in an attempt to keep their rights to own slaves and protest tariffs. Although each eventually rejoined the Union, nearly 200 ...

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. | Opinion ...

A prominent human rights group is calling on Ottawa to follow the U.S. and declare that recent actions by Sudan's ...

During a broadcast, he said, "Secession from the United States is half ... After the Russia-Ukraine war began in February 2022, Keosayan was sanctioned by countries in the European Union, the ...

The second Sudanese civil war, which lasted from 1983 to 2005, ended with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese voted in favor of the ...

Some say Florida has more than 200 ghost towns. Here's a list of some and the story of one that was founded by a 19th-century ...

Created “in Order to form a more perfect Union,” the Constitution, in force since 1789, sought to improve efficiency through ...