This week marks the 160th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. The final significant turning point of the Civil War may not have occurred without the previously unknown contributions of Sheridan’s Union Scouts.
Disgraced reality show star Alec Baldwin watched Ken Burns’ epic documentary T”he Civil War” and concluded America is “in a pre-Civil War culture now.”
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), declared the capital of Khartoum has been recaptured from insurgents.
UNICEF reports armed men in Sudan are sexually assaulting children, including infants as young as one year old.
Random events can on occasion change the course of history – such is the case when several Confederate generals were literally out to lunch when their army was attacked during one of the most crucial battles of the Civil War.
Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Yusuf Sharif told Russian media on Wednesday that an agreement first proposed in 2017 to give Russia a naval base on the Red Sea coast will finally proceed, giving Moscow an opportunity to replace the base it lost in Syria with the fall of dictator Bashar Assad.
A delegation of politicians from Iran visited Algeria and Tunisia this week, hoping to increase Iran’s presence in Africa, find new friends after Tehran’s disastrous proxy war in Gaza, and turn the page on some unfortunate history in Algeria.
Dr. Hanan Hamdan, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) representative for Egypt, said this weekend the burden of more than 1.2 million refugees from the brutal civil war in Sudan is “unsustainable.”
Donald Trump’s presidency marked the end of American democracy and return to autocracy, according to former MSNBC security analyst Malcolm Nance, who blamed Americans for having “voted for a dictatorship” where “loads of people” will die, warning of “free hunting season for blacks with immunity for white cops” and that Muslims and Latinos “will DEFINITELY die in mass deportation roundups/camps.”
Ballot fraud in the United States is nothing new. Absentee ballots were allowed for the first time in the presidential election of 1864 because of the massive number of Union soldiers in the field.
Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was that he was a lone mad gunman who operated with a small group of conspirators loyal to him. The true story is detailed for the first time in the new bestselling book, The Unvanquished.
In early September 1864, the war was not going well for the North. Lincoln had staked the Republican Party’s political future on military victory over the Confederacy, yet Confederate General Jubal Early’s army had nearly marched on Washington. Another military failure on the battlefield would be disastrous for Lincoln.
The Center for Information Resilience (CIR), a non-profit human rights group, and the UK Guardian on Wednesday accused fighters from Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of gleefully posting images of themselves committing war crimes, including the burning of civilian homes and the torture of prisoners.
The feud between Libya’s two governments for control of its central bank intensified on Wednesday as more oil fields shut down and the eastern government demanded the return of ousted bank governor Sadiq al-Kabir.
The United Nations World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in hunger-plagued Sudan for fraud.
Throughout 1863 and 1864, Confederate guerrilla leader John Singleton Mosby and his intrepid Rangers, “the South’s most dangerous men” terrorized the Northern troops in the area surrounding the Shenandoah Valley, known as “Mosby’s Confederacy.”
Elon Musk warned “civil war is inevitable” in England, which has seen violence break out between Muslims and anti-mass migration protesters.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s “Baby Dog” stole the show on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention (RNC) as the governor’s English bulldog was brought out on stage.
Modern conflicts are increasingly fought less on traditional battlefields and more through irregular warfare like disrupting supply chains, conducting psych ops, and other strategic maneuvers—including timing attacks with an eye toward media coverage and upcoming elections.
Next week Americans will celebrate the founding of our country, but most probably don’t realize how close one hundred and sixty years ago in July 1864 America came to being permanently torn apart.
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 represents Costner’s boldest, grandest, and most ambitious turn behind the camera yet.
Emmanuel Macron warned the public that “civil war” awaits France if they fail to vote for his brand of neo-liberalism in the upcoming elections.
The death toll in Sudan’s conflict regions continues to rise as junta forces block civilians from receiving food and medical equipment.
A crucial piece of intelligence can turn the tide of an entire battle or even a war. During the Civil War before the Third Battle of Winchester, that intelligence was obtained from two of the most unlikely of sources—a school teacher and a slave.
World War II veteran Bill Pool is the only still-living son of a Civil War soldier. His father, Charles Parker Pool, was born in 1844.
On April 18, 1864, author Herman Melville rode through the twilight, embedded with the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, on a scouting mission deep in enemy territory.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Saturday Show” that former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on “revenge” was so divisive she is worried it could start a civil war.
Confederate guerrilla leader John Singleton Mosby continually urged his Rangers to “get the bulge” on their opponents by attacking first, using the element of surprise to swiftly and violently make the most of their small numbers to subdue their opponents.
Confederate guerilla leader John Singleton Mosby and his intrepid Rangers are known for their incredibly daring feats, but they weren’t always successful. One chilly night in the winter of 1864, the Union calvary met the Confederates’ surprise raid with a bloody defeat.
Each of my thirteen books has found me. The spark for my latest bestseller ignited when I stumbled across a roadside sign in Northern Virginia marking John Singleton Mosby’s Grapewood Farm engagement.
Mosby himself seemed to have a vampire-like ability to rise from the dead, being severely wounded a handful of times, but always staving off death and capture.
Ballot fraud occurred one hundred and sixty years ago in the presidential election of 1864, when absentee ballots were allowed for the first time because of the massive number of Union soldiers in the field and away from their home states.
A lonely roadside sign stands by a winding Virginia country byway marking the site Union Jessie Scout Jack Sterry, also known as Lincoln’s Special Forces, spoke his last words. Through his cunning, he tried to lead the Confederate army down the wrong road, away from where it was crucially needed.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that the Department of Justice should investigate “right-wing organizations” who supported former President Donald Trump “training up in the hill” for a civil war.
Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” co-starring Alan Ritchson, debuted with $9 million in 2,845 theaters.
Distributor A24 is facing public backlash after it apparently used AI technology to generate promotional artwork for the movie “Civil War.”
This is a bad movie undermined by an unforgivably lazy script.
Special operations forces require special men. Union major Henry Harrison Young was such a man—born for war.
Kirsten Dunst, who stars in the upcoming movie “Civil War,” is no fan of the news media, saying it is a “big time” driver of division in America.
The Union Army had one of their best chances to capture and destroy Mosby’s Rangers, the comparatively small elite unit, at that time, of Confederate guerilla warriors terrorizing Federal troops in Northern Virginia.
