The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

Introduction to "Misfit: a revolutionary life" by Captain Jack White (Livewire Publications, Dublin). Text from Revolt Against Plenty Website.

Soldiers from the Wagner Group have helped Vladimir Putin advance his aim of restoring Russian power in Africa. But on the ...

After a Border Patrol agent was killed in a shootout in Vermont in January, the apparent outlines of a grander conspiracy ...

Books & the Arts / In I’m Still Here, one Brazilian clan’s confrontation with the military dictatorship dramatizes the last ...

Students have always been, and will always be, at the heart of change. Activism begins in a classroom, in a lecture hall, and ...

In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

Journalist Sarah Jones chronicles the gaps in the nation's health care system and social safety net that were highlighted by ...

On the face of it, the demand sounds like a perfectly reasonable appeal to the world’s conscience – to allow those inadvertently caught in the throes of a great regional war to return to ... In their ...

In 1792, during the Washington administration, Congress passed the Post Office Act, creating the U. S. Post Office as a vital service providing a web of communication uniting all Americans ...