Over the next two years Ottawa will bring in 4,000 Sudanese refugees under government-assisted sponsorship, with an ...

The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

Hamas has already made a big concession by allowing private American and Egyptian military contractors to operate inside Gaza ...

President Andrew Johnson signed the first official Department of Education into law. Although it was not a cabinet level ...

This has been a dizzying and disorienting week in international diplomacy. One with wild implications for Ukraine, the future ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United ...

People exiled from the town of Saraqib rejoiced when the Assad regime fell. Then they went home — and found ruins ...

For decades, the Middle East has been the region where diplomatic aspirations go to die. At least since U.S. President George ...

Lucas Samaras lived and worked in on the 62nd floor of a Midtown building, transforming the space into a creative retreat ...

Over the last 15 years, the Middle East has been racked by war, destruction, and displacement. Hundreds of thousands of ...