When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010 ... and slave owners should not be deprived of their property. It took a Civil War to straighten that out. Now, it’s surely true that some civil ...

The memorial, organised and funded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), will be ... As the legendary civil rights activist WEB DuBois wrote in a 1915 essay titled The African Roots ...

“At the time of his death in 1920, Gorgas was one of the most well-known physicians in the English-speaking world”, reveals the book, adding: “Born in 1854, his life was shaped by three wars: the ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency's second day on Tuesday.

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump’s second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency’s second day on Tuesday.

The Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) has announced the commencement of its 2025 recruitment exercise for various positions across the Federal Civil Service. In a statement released on ...

China moved into Sudan’s oil industry after Chevron Corp. left in 1992 amid violence targeting oil workers in another civil war. South Sudan broke away to become its own country in 2011 ...

From right, Commissioners Codi Plaisance and D. Scott Hughes, listen to testimony at a Louisiana State Civil Service Commission meeting on Feb. 5, 2025. Wesley Muller/Louisiana Illuminator Gov.

Homeless refugees who face being forced to leave a camp of tents in a city centre have told of enduring freezing temperatures for months after escaping war-torn countries. Many of the group of mainly ...