Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.

Hamas has already made a big concession by allowing private American and Egyptian military contractors to operate inside Gaza ...

Lt. R. S. Williamson led portions of the southern survey, aided by Lt. John Parke. It was Parke and his team who traversed ...

A sudden loss of jobs at the National Park Service has some terminated archaeologists rethinking a life of public service.

Rosencrans and the Union troops were led to the summit by a young man, 22-year-old David Hart, whose father owned the farm ...

We speak at length with Tariq Ali, Pakistani British historian, activist, filmmaker. He is an editor of the New Left Review ...

The families of Israeli hostages still held by the Hamas militant group on Friday welcomed the “joyous news” that three men, ...

For better or worse, most of us are familiar by now with US President Donald Trump’s negotiating style. He likes to start ...

On this day in aviation history, February 20, 1939, the Douglas DC-5 made its first flight. Less remembered than its cousins, ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels enter Bukavu, escalating conflict and causing displacement in eastern Congo amid ceasefire ...