The Titanic's sinking claimed over 1,500 lives. There were well-known people among the casualties.

Few consumer goods are immune from the effects of new tariffs on imported goods, but apparel may be among the hardest hit.

Today was day two of the annual “Spring Civil War Encampment” at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The public was ...

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...

The world said goodbye last month to someone who made history as the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress.

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by a descendant of a Confederate general who later played a key role ...

Early modeling from the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the number of earthquake deaths in Myanmar’s heartlands could rise above 10,000. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/Shutterstock The wave of ...

Gold prices surged to a record high on Friday, as investors flocked to the safe-haven asset amid fears of a global trade war triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariffs. Spot gold ...

It plunged into a civil war in 2013 and then again three years later, until the violence was stopped by a fragile ceasefire agreement in 2018. The nation is governed by a coalition government ...

Myanmar's military junta has continued to bomb parts of the war-torn country following the major earthquake there, which has killed more than 1,600 people. The UN has described the attacks as ...

The quake in Myanmar comes at a time when the country is very poorly placed to deal with a disaster, as it already is mired in deep crisis due to ongoing civil war that has forced huge numbers of ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace treaty to lend it a conventional closing date. And how could there have been, since the Lincoln administration ...