The fight for independence was one part revolution, one part civil war, with brutalities on both sides. That was one takeaway. George Washington was not all that hot of a military strategist, but he ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

Team digs at site where 22 black Civil War soldiers believed to be massacred. Local archaeologists and historians were at a farm in Simpsonville Monday, where they dug up earth, trying to locate the ...

The acclaimed filmmaker’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the political history of the Revolution remains strangely understated. The acclaimed filmmaker’s latest PBS series is ...

Sudan’s civil war has become a humanitarian catastrophe of staggering scale, marked by famine, ethnic cleansing and sexual violence. Over three years, an estimated 150,000 people have been killed, and ...