Huff, Confederate veteran, and a graduate of the old Winchester Medical College, which was located here prior to the Civil ...

Lawmakers from both political parties invoked China as a potential winner in international development as the U.S. reviews ...

At least 740,000 refugees have crossed into Chad to escape the civil war. In overcrowded camps, the impact on disabled people ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

A visit to resistance-held Karen State reveals the impact of four years of war, and the determination of ordinary citizens to ...

She underwent a hip replacement procedure which had complications, leading to the amputation ... civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Russia built a sickening torture system to persecute Ukrainian prisoners of war — where captives were ... as to allow gangrene to set in, forcing amputations. Other prisoners suffered blood ...

A senior home affairs official is allegedly refusing to approve invoices from service providers; instead he allegedly demands ...

“She became the first female bilateral amputee to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and is now ready to take on the Everest of survival challenges — 21 days in the remote jungle and dense ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...