The lack of pensions for Revolutionary War veterans was a national shame so profound that President James Monroe included it ...

Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ...

Among other things, “1861” portrays the waiting game that Maj. Robert Anderson faced as he commanded Fort Sumter and faced ...

Local officials say another series of unmarked graves — this one containing 14 individuals — has been dug up in a park in the ...

In the Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.), the Carthaginian General Hannibal deflected the Romans toward the center and then flanked ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865 ...

and won the decisive victory of the Second Punic War at Zama, now al-Jamah in Tunisia, for which he was surnamed Africanus. Born into one of Rome’s great patrician clans in 236 BC, Scipio was the son, ...

After dangling the possibility of his attendance, Trump said he would stay away but still wants to meet with Putin, further weakening the Istanbul talks.

Carthage is remembered in history for the Punic Wars against the Roman Republic ... second cousins) bridging the Mediterranean, one buried in a North African Punic site and one in Sicily. “These ...

“One hypothesis is that over the centuries since ... Ancient Rome infamously destroyed Carthage in 146 B.C.E. during the Third Punic War. As legend has it, the Romans sowed Carthage’s fields ...

Although it was a major event in the development of the Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome and in the beginning ... Media ownership in Australia is one of the most concentrated in the world (Learn ...