After almost three decades of civil war, there is an enormous amount of internal and external human displacement. It is estimated that there are nearly 500,000 Angolan refugees in Zambia ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the balance. In H.M. Bouwman’s wise and ...

Celebrate Black History Month with a good book. Our readers recommended 50+ stories to dive into this February and beyond.

In 2023, Angola officially ... of dollars off-the-books, started to cast a pall on the economy and took a toll on investor confidence. Mozambique was plagued by a 16-year civil war that ended ...

By Jo Hamya In a newly reissued 1983 book, the radical feminist Andrea Dworkin argued that conservative women understood the reality of male domination. By Jennifer Szalai Our columnist ...

On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels entered Damascus, ending the Assad family’s 54-year rule and ostensibly the first phase of the Syrian Civil War. Beginning in the Spring of 2011 after a violent ...

Gentle, true story about finding love, hope in prison camp.

Several NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, have documented evidence of numerous mass atrocities committed throughout the conflict, prompting accusations of ethnic cleansing and war crimes.

During the Civil War, the factory transformed the hull of the Merrimack into the ironclad warship CSS Virginia, which was famously involved in the Battle of Hampton Roads against the USS Monitor ...

Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” “When viewed against the backdrop of Victorian oppression, the appeal of ...