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Two documentary series provide a view into the humanity, courage and flaws of a leader in a time of Civil War

SAN DIEGO — Barbara Walter, a political scientist at UC San Diego, has been studying civil wars for 30 years. She understands the script they follow: how they ignite, how they escalate, how they end.

Visitors to Alabama's state Capitol often stop next door at “the First White House of the Confederacy," where Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived at the start of the Civil War

The star and director reunite for their eighth film together, for a film which won Cruz Best Actress at Venice film festival and is likely to earn her an Oscar nomination.

The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American democracy, the Civil War-era constitutional amendment set “free” an estimated 4 million enslaved people and seemed to demonstrate American claims to equality and freedom. But the amendment did not apply to those convicted…

The world’s oldest man, Spaniard Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia, has died at the age of 112 years and 341 days, the Guinness World Records said Wednesday. He had been declared the oldest living man in the world when he turned 112 years and 211 days old, the London-based organization…

A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about it too much?