Amid mounting tensions between white settlers and the Shoshone, Union soldiers killed an estimated 250 to 500 Shoshone. Today ...

Turner was one of many Black parents whose demands for their children’s freedom defined the scope of the 13th Amendment’s ban ...

In 1864, Captain Silas Soule of the 1st Colorado Cavalry refused orders to kill innocent Native Americans. He wrote letters about the massacre, which may have changed the course of history.

Rice was recruited by the local Democratic party to run for the Pennsylvania Senate in 1864. He ran and lost. In 1867, Rice mounted a campaign to win the 1868 Democratic nomination for president. A ...

Happy 102nd Birthday to a Leesburg World War II hero! Hal Urban, born July 16, 1924, helped rescue Jewish prisoners who survived a concentration camp, has a Purple Heart and a surprising connection to ...

Vasily Grossman was one of the Soviet Union’s most dazzlingly clear-eyed observers of the Second World War, but it was his vision, ironically, that almost kept him from the front lines. At the time of ...

A Kentucky World War II veteran wounded fighting Nazi Germany has finally received one of the nation's most solemn military honors after waiting more than eight decades. For 81 years, Glenn Fisher ...

Just in time for a contentious 250th anniversary of the United States of America, historian David S. Reynolds' latest book, Two Ships, helps us realize that any country that couldn't agree on its own ...

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A new clinical classification scheme is presented, entitled “Acute Pulmonary Embolism Clinical Categories,” with 5 categories (A-E) and subcategories, ranging from low to high risk for adverse ...