In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock ...

DAVIS, CA – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has placed UC Davis under federal investigation for alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, citing concerns ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ...

The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an end in 2018. Kiir’s government detained two ministers and several senior military officials allied with Machar last week.

The extraordinary civil war engulfing one of Britain’s greatest cathedrals A rebellion has broken out among Winchester Cathedral’s congregation, but a new review is unlikely to allay fears of ...

Another free agent cornerback has come off of the market. Former Buccaneers and Lions defensive back Carlton Davis III is joining the Patriots on a three-year, $60 million contract, according to ...

The Lions are closing in on a deal to sign New York Jets starting cornerback D.J. Reed to replace Davis. Davis will join Terrell Williams in New England, who left the Lions to become the Pats ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Michael Diz is heading to Davis Polk’s Northern California office Diz has led deals for Verizon Communications, TPG, and others Davis Polk & Wardwell hired a top deals lawyer from rival Debevoise & ...

Is that a call for a civil war? Kinda sounds like it to me ... And “force” is not “freedom.” Thomas Jefferson wrote, “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas ...