The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

Farnham-based, award-winning children’s author Ally Sherrick hosted a launch event for her latest book, Rebel Heart, at ...

In the culmination of the Hilary Mantel adaptation, Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell becomes a more poignant figure, weighed ...

Clint Eastwood starred in and directed one of his best and most anti-war Westerns in 1976, and it's still well worth watching ...

This popular film location for the Crown may look like an ancient castle, and while it is the UK's oldest castle, it is also ...

As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an unjust war—in their case, Vietnam. The group soon escalated to bombing government buildings and ...

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

So was Oliver Cromwell’s use of his military power in the English Civil War to execute King Charles I and ... But some events ...

Historical films are bound to have dramatic inaccuracies, but few have been as controversially skewed as 1970's Cromwell.

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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 ...