In particular, his classic skull logo has been taken on by military and law enforcement members as a symbol of their own authority. The unfortunate trending of the original logo among these officers, ...

Although Shia versus Sunni violence was the main driver of the calamitous 2003–2008 civil war in Iraq, the risk of renewed conflict between these two sectarian groups has lessened because they ...

Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out on September 11. She spoke with Smithsonian about what antebellum Congress was ...