Famed documentarian Ken Burns visited Portland this week to show excerpts from the upcoming documentary series, "The American ...

“Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” Fink warned. “We are on the edge of a ...

A new wave of purges has engulfed the senior leadership of China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army. Since the 20th ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the ...

"If Israel feels that a certain leader...is an evident threat to its national security, it will operate," a former Israeli ...

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...

In the latest edition of A Look at the Archives, Ashley Large introduces "Rebellion Records," a state mandated log of men serving in the military during the Civil War and "the fates that befell them." ...

The American Civil War divided the nation - but not every slave state joined the Confederacy. This episode explores why key border states like Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland chose to remain in the ...

Is civil war looming in the United States? This has been a recurring contention among some political commentators and ...

As a war expert on a CIA panel, UC San Diego political scientist Barbara Walter helped forecast civil wars in other countries ...

An expert has issued an ominous civil war warning and predicts there could be a tense breaking point in the US in the next ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...