the War of the Rebellion, the Brothers' War, and the Late Unpleasantness. Walt Whitman called it the War of Attempted Secession. Confederate General Joseph Johnston called it the War Against the ...

For years the colonies had flourished in a state of “salutary neglect.” Britain had been content to leave the day-to-day ...

On the night of 31 October 1954, a series of attacks across colonial Algeria marked the start of the Algerian War – a bloody ...

She became the iconic image of Afghanistan's plight, a young refugee fleeing the war between the Soviet-backed ... lived in a state of deep craving for rebellion and for the pleasures of earthly ...

As in the previous war, taxes were a central issue. And Alexander Hamilton understood that putting down this rebellion was critical to the life of the nation. In order to create a self-supporting ...

In later years, Protestant commentators could point to the 1641 rebellion as proof of Catholic barbarity and perfidy. However, as the author demonstrates, despite some of the outrageous claims made in ...

Despite their strategic location on the American border, the townships of Lower Canada have been largely ignored in studies of the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-38. Originally settled by ...