Wounded Civil War soldiers witnessed a mysterious glow that seemed to save their lives. Over a century later, two high school students solved the mystery of “Angel’s Glow.” The answer involved an ...

Relic hunters scouring a farm field south of Fredericksburg, Virginia, were turning up the usual Civil War artifacts when their metal detectors hit something strange. Eleven little buttons emerged ...

Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the project ...

Scarborough Castle in North Yorkshire, England, hides an unexpected piece of history. Its grounds contain a nuclear bunker added centuries after the original structure was built. Overlooked for ...

The Civil War isn’t what it used to be. Instead of the romantic version, a “good war” of courage and glory, that emerged in the conflict’s immediate aftermath, or the post-civil-rights-era emphasis on ...

A curious plaque marks an unoccupied grave at the Henry VII Chapel of Westminster Abbey, where Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, are interred. It indicates the former location of the remains of ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

For years, despite all of the partisan fighting, I’ve been very dismissive of the idea that our country would become entangled in another civil war. But, unfortunately, we might be in the early stages ...

The answer is no. These Critical Questions use core findings from the academic literature on civil wars and political violence to situate recent tragic events and fundamentally challenge the notion ...

The term has increasingly been invoked on social media after major political moments, highlighting divisions among Americans. Data includes posts, reposts and replies from July 1, 2025, to 7:45 p.m.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More Americans than not believe it is likely that the United States ...

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...