On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following ...
It was estimated that the economic loss due to the civil war to the housing sector is somewhere between 22.8 and 28 billion U.S. dollars. The number of deaths due to torture, committed by Syrian ...
Here’s why she fell short. For the second time in U.S. history, a major party nominated a woman for president and for the second time she lost. As they sought to tell the story, 50 photographers ...
New Zealand's Associate Immigration Minister Chris Penk has overturned a visa refusal for the U_S_ conservative commentator ... a Louisiana police chief on a civil rights violation for allegedly ...
He abandoned his two children in Boston to move to Savannah, Georgia, where he fathered several more children with a second wife. He later joined the 1st Georgia Cavalry in the Civil War ...
In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World ... BC In 1945, the War Department and the U.S. Army Signal ...
One year after Hamas gunmen broke out of Gaza to carry out the deadliest attack in Israel's history, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, Gaza lies in ruins and regional conflict ...