Why are we trying to divide up the peoples of the Middle East? Why are we trying to chop them up, make them different, remind them -- constantly, insidiously, viciously, cruelly -- of their ...

Photographs from the American Civil War have a funereal air to them. Add color to these historical artifacts, and a weird thing happens: they spring to life. And in doing so, they almost seem more ...

The Civil War in color: A world in black and white brought to life as US celebrates 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. February 1 marks National Freedom Day, honoring the signing by ...

Each death documented on the map, color-coded by the race of the victim, ... In total, in the century after the Civil War, as many as 5,000 people of color were lynched by mobs in the United States.

HISTORY EXPLORED: Maps show Texas and the Gulf of Mexico during the Civil War. Panorama of the seat of war, with a bird's eye view of Texas and part of Mexico in 1861.

Color by Jordan J. Lloyd/Dynamichrome/Photo Courtesy of Library of Congress This photo by Alexander Gardner, originally Brady's apprentice, depicts Union Colonel James H. Childs (middle, standing ...