Foreword / Steven Mintz -- "Waked up to feel" : defining childhood, debating slavery in antebellum America / Rebecca de Schweinitz -- "Train up a child in the way he should go" : the image of ...

Joe Walker, dressed head to toe as a Civil War-era Union soldier, had his audience on the edge of its seat Tuesday morning. Walker, 64, talked about the dress and health and weapons of Civil War ...

In Syria during the 14-year civil war, many children were detained with their mothers. Then, security forces separated them. Thousands of these children have never been found. Since the fall of the ...

Ulysses S Grant was the biggest hero of the Civil War. Johnny Clem might well have been the smallest. Ten years old when he ran away from home and joined the second Michigan Regiment, the drummer boy ...

Nearly a year after the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Syrians are still piecing together what they lost during the war. That includes finding answers about children who were taken by the state ...

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...

Three years of civil war in Syria has led to the death of more than 11,000 children, according to a new report. The Oxford Research Group found that 11,420 children have been killed since the war ...