One of the most arresting American images from the pre-Civil War era is a photograph of a man’s hand, palm forward, with the letters “SS” seared into its flesh. The hand belonged to a New England ...

A ship with humanitarian aid and activists for Gaza was bombed by drones while in international waters off Malta early on Friday, its organizers said, and the Maltese government said after a rescue ...

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition campaign group said Friday that one of its ships bound for the Gaza Strip, carrying aid and dozens of activists, was attacked in international waters by drones in the ...

An Israeli drone struck a vessel carrying aid to Gaza off the coast of Malta early on Friday, according to the activist group Freedom Flotilla, leaving the ship at risk of sinking. The group said they ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, enslaved people who traveled to freedom on foot did so mainly from Southern states that bordered free states. But those in the deep South didn’t have that ...