On April 12, 1861, the Civil War erupted with the firing on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy. Confederate Vice President ...

He had just finished leading a worship service when two Gestapo agents approached him. “Prisoner Bonhoeffer — get ready and come with us,” one of them ordered. It was April 8, 1945, and Dietrich ...

Benjamin Ritchie was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2002 for the Sept. 29, 2000, fatal shooting of 32-year-old ...