American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

The sales arm of American public broadcaster PBS will present a first look at the series at its screening on Wednesday, ...

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

As we celebrate the Bard this weekend, our Writer at Large talks to the Scottish academic who has written the definitive account of the political… ...

as their troubled homeland is torn further apart by a seemingly intractable civil war. In capital Naypyidaw, the military – or Tatmadaw – calls all the shots, but after a series of chastening ...

A postal clerk's son born in New York City in 1922, William Edward Leuchtenburg was so fascinated by politics that at age 12, ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns will visit Lexington and Concord on April 17 to discuss his new documentary, "The American Revolution." ...

To complicate matters, though, confederates with Scottish ancestry – of whom there were many – during the American Civil War loved Burns. As we enter the 20th century, however, the view of ...

The United States accused the SAF of deploying these banned weapons in a brutal campaign against civilians, potentially constituting war crimes under ... and skin burns. Satellite imagery analysis ...