Should schoolchildren be better prepared for war and disasters? Germany's interior minister thinks so. Is it a matter of taking sensible precautions, or pure scaremongering? And how do other countries ...

Arunachalam Sundararajah looks east to the Sri Lankan coastline with a feeling that resembles envy. Many families on the shore live in new houses or own new fishing boats donated by charities working ...

The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: "America's public enemy number one…is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this ...

Foreword / by Steve Hammond -- Prelude -- Friday, June 17, 1864 -- Saturday, June 18, 1864 -- Sunday, June 19, 1864 -- Monday, June 20, 1864 -- Subsequently -- Afterward and Over Time -- Epilogue / by ...