The Cold War era was marked by political tension, espionage, and a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet ...

The British Prime Minister Lord John Russell told the House of Commons, in January, 1847, that “the famine is such as has not been known in modern times; indeed, I should say it is like a famine ...

But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern political, ecological and economic disaster, shaped by Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom, and in the ...

Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...

Famine was declared in February 2017 in South Sudan, where some 100,000 people are facing starvation and a million more are on the brink. The IRC is predicting imminent famine in Somalia, Yemen and ...