Jan 30 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military-backed party has completed a sweeping victory in the country's ‌three-phase ​general election, state media said, cementing an outcome ‌long expected after a ...

Myanmar’s Union and Solidarity Party wins majority in general election amid civil war, with critics calling the process a move to entrench military rule.

Today we visit a historic Georgia city cemetery to find the grave of General Henry H. Lowe, who died in 1854 and played a major role in early Georgia politics, militia leadership, and plantation ...

Ever since the Civil War, unions and others have used mass slowdowns and work stoppages to advocate for changing things, ...

Two sets of historic human remains were uncovered last week in an archaeological dig at the Maryland School for the Deaf ...

Today, the most interesting reminder of Daniel Sickles, a 19th-century Army general, might be his amputated leg bone, a cast of which is currently on loan at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine ...

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People have participated in collective work stoppages to raise the pressure on employers for more than 150 years.

Virginia Sen. Adam Ebbin proposes removing three Confederate statues from Capitol Square, calling their presence embarrassing ...

EXCLUSIVE: More than 30 years after starring in New Line’s big-budget Civil War movie Gettysburg, Stephen Lang is returning to the subject in indie drama Gettysburg 1863. The Avatar actor is starring ...

Myanmar’s junta-led election is widely viewed as a bid to legitimize military power amid civil war, low turnout, and the ...

Standing at the Sunken Road, a key battlefield location from the Civil War, Ranger Pete explains why this area became one of the conflict’s most fiercely contested sites. He describes how the natural ...