The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain ...

"War Eagle" is the school's motto and battle cry, but all its athletic teams are nicknamed the Tigers. That sometimes proves ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and ...

Auburn University wants to make one thing perfectly clear: Its official school mascot is a tiger — not an eagle. That's all spelled out with no nonsense on the Trademark Management & Licensing ...

Auburn University notes that its teams have been known as the Tigers since it fielded its first football team in 1892. The school says its motto, War Eagle, "has become a way for the Auburn Family ...

Mrs. Angeline A. Cooley of 25 Worthington St., one of the oldest women in Pittsfield, has been exhibiting to friends a collection of scrip, or postal currency, of post Civil War days. The mention of ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Ordnance from Syria's 13-year conflict exploded in the coastal city of Latakia, collapsing a building and killing more than a dozen people, the Syrian Civil Defense said Sunday.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is opening an investigation into antisemitism complaints filed ...