He fell out with the English Parliament for several reasons. The disputes escalated into a civil war in 1642 ... Back to top What was the role of women during the Civil Wars?

It begs the questions—how common were blood transfusions during the American Civil War? And, when did the practice of blood transfusions, performed to treat patients suffering from extreme ...

As a result, during the English Civil War the castle became a Royalist stronghold. Guernsey itself, however, supported the Parliamentarians. The island and the castle exchanged cannon and musket ...

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

Historians review the problems of re-building a region destroyed by four years of bitter war. "This is a white man's government" "We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as ...

Jared Malsin is a Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal based in Istanbul, covering Turkey, Syria and the wider region. During more ... and the ongoing civil war in Syria.