The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

U.S.A.I.D. The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined ... Last year, the United States gave $830 million in ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

Civil rights advocates say Canary Mission is doxxing critics of Israel and providing a possible road map for immigration ... other activism over Israel’s war in Gaza, have been either threatened ...

USAID has been used to foment political crises, sway elections, and cause tremendous suffering around the world.

“An evolving electoral map could dramatically change the behavior ... candidate by popular vote until after the Civil War. State legislatures retain the constitutional power to abandon the ...

From about 1680 to the Civil War, it appears that the swamp communities ... Leaming surveyed local and state records related to the Dismal Swamp, and scoured unpublished local histories, memoirs ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...