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.

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

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

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National Park Service's many Civil War sites. Each proved enjoyable and educational, ...

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

The Hamas militant group said Thursday it would release the next three Israeli hostages as planned this weekend in exchange ...

By EMMANUEL ONWUBIKO Categorical imperative, in the ethics of the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, founder of ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

The militant Hamas group says it will free three Israeli hostages as planned, in a reversal of its previous announcement and ...

Trump has suggested they could be resettled in Jordan and Egypt, both of which are vehemently opposed to any such scenario.

For years, the village, which is surrounded by Israeli settlements — Givat Salit and Mehola to the north; Shadmot Mehola and ...

In fact, since 1948, intra-Muslim wars have featured a toll of mega-million fatalities (e.g., 3 million killed during two civil wars in the Sudan, 3 million during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war ...