Two mass graves containing the remains of executed individuals from the Greek Civil War have been discovered in Thessaloniki.

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

A 57-year-old man jailed in Pennsylvania mutilated a civilian during the civil wars that ravaged the Balkans in the 90s, ...

A former Syrian military official who oversaw one of the country's most notorious prisons during the civil war has been charged with multiple counts of torture, U.S. federal authorities announced ...

After the Civil War, the South’s economy ... and to support new expenses such as universal public education. The prison problem was especially challenging, as most prisons had been destroyed ...

History Detective host Eduardo Pagán consults a Clara Barton biographer, a civil war prison historian, and a Pennsylvania genealogist to determine whether an 1866 letter about the death of a ...

Released from the North Dublin Union in early May 1923 after six months in various civil war prisons in the capital, Macardle, having lost her teaching position in Alexandra College, intended to ...