Historians say that Sarah Emma Edmonds exaggerated many aspects of her wartime experiences. Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds of women who fought in the conflict in ...

Learn about Mae Reeves, Anna Bissell, Estée Lauder, Maggie Walker, and Sara Sunshine—five women from Smithsonian collections ...

In last spring’s dystopian drama Civil War, Kirsten Dunst played a fictional photographer whose name was a callback to a very ...

The Taliban represent the worst of religious fascism that is drenched in extreme misogyny for the purpose of allaying their ...

The Wide Awakes were a series of clubs of mostly young men in their teens and early twenties, who organized parades ...

Somehow, the International Olympic Committee and the city of Antwerp and government of Belgium would stage the games after a ...

The small museum is a gem of artifacts regarding not only the Texas Civil War, but about personal lives, particularly the lives of women. Those displays had nothing to do with the ... I’d hate to be ...

Abang Othow, 42, was a teenage refugee when she landed in Australia and began searching for a family she could barely recall.

Scandinavian support of Spain during the Spanish Civil War was revealed by historic documents, depicting the international aid efforts to Spanish citizens during the years 1936 to 1939, as the nation ...

Kirsten Dunst and her younger brother, Christian Dunst, are making it a family affair in Milan! On Friday, Sept. 20, the ...

A Connecticut museum spotlights a national movement born in Hartford that helped Lincoln win the presidency in 1860.

Israel killed a senior Hezbollah commander and other leaders in a strike on southern Beirut. It comes after deadly pager and ...