Greek Reporter

How the Marshall Plan Rebuilt Post-War Greece—and Bound It to the U.S.

On June 5, 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed a blueprint for the survival of post-war Europe: the ...
WLRN

Colombia's political center not only doesn't hold anymore - it may no longer even exist

COMMENTARY Colombia should have shed its violent, centuries-old polarization when its civil war ended, but its political pendulum still swings far right and far left — especially in this presidential ...
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Central Arkansas Library System debuts statue honoring Black soldiers who fought in Civil War

A bronze, 6-foot-tall statue commemorating all of Arkansas' African American troops who served during the Civil War was ...
USA Today

Visit Petersburg, where the Union strategy led to the Civil War's end

Petersburg National Battlefield marks the sites of the Civil War's final major campaign. The Union's nearly year-long siege of Petersburg severed vital Confederate supply lines to Richmond. Visitors ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

The U.S. Civil War's Impact on Women's Work and Political Participation

This paper studies the role of economic participation via the labor market in enabling the political mobilization of an underrepresented group. Specifically, we study the wives and daughters of ...

5 Civil War Prison Camps With Brutal Histories

Civil War prison camps were places of hunger, disease, exposure, and death. Soldiers who survived the battlefield but ended ...