Civil War

A new study found the loss of forest cover significantly increased in four countries that recently declared peace after years of war.

And it has identified six monuments and roughly 30 street names that could soon possibly meet the chopping block.

Stephen E. Maizlish's new book discusses a time much like our own, when radicals in Congress hurled insults while moderates bemoaned a lack of civility.

A conversation with Rasha El Fangry, the coordinator of the Collaborative for Peace of Sudan.

This is what's happening in what is now Yemen's fourth year of civil war.

The allegations of a leftist civil war are just the latest in a string of far-right conspiracy theories. And as we saw with Edgar Maddison Welch and Lane Davis, those conspiracy theories can lead to a violent aftermath.

A reporter for The Daily Caller neglected to mention he'd given a speech in front of protesters in support of white nationalism.

Jonathan W. White argues that the Civil War might have been the most sleepless period in American history.

It would appear so, going by current research.

What a playfully arbitrary debate says about American historical memory.

Edward Everett Hale and the fiction of treason.

The process is not nearly as official or meticulous as you might expect.

A 2010 study found that it can activate anti-black bias in whites.

Researchers say yes—human impacts on the climate made droughts leading up to the war two to three times more likely.

Despite the usual array of punditry, there's not much President Obama could have done in the weeks leading up to the recent mid-terms to change the outcome.

A conversation about the grim business of predicting mass atrocities.

Aid from external rivals is a key variable that can complicate democratization.

As you watch 12 Years a Slave recall that the market in humanity really was a market—with dizzying asset price changes, speculative bubbles, and a fear of volatility greater than a fear of civil war.

They're surprisingly little-studied, too.

If we had a solid way to predict war, maybe they could be stopped before they even started. Academe is working on making its models better at the task.

With 200,000 people expected to flock to Gettysburg for the 150th anniversary of the battle, Civil War reenactments still appear to be going strong.

A study of the political upheaval in Kenya shows what harm violence can have on the children who witness it.

On the surprising origins of an official federal holiday that now marks the opening of summer in the United States.