Forgotten Civil War Memorial found in Alton apartment building ...

Author and historian David Mowery will present “Cincinnati in the Civil War: Then and Now” at the next regular meeting of the ...

Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, ...

The German constitution outlaws the former Nazi swastika and other remnants as “symbols of anti-constitutional organizations.

Before there was a nation, there was the Army. The United States Army began on June 14, 1775, as the Continental Congress ...

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress called for 10 companies of expert riflemen to be organized and sent to Boston to assist the militia facing ...

Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the blo ...

Rivalries are the lifeblood of college football. But their history is often inextricably intertwined with the history of our ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ser Amantio di Nicolao The Slave Pen of 1820s Alexandria, Virginia A brick building at 1315 Duke Street in ...

Author Darin Wipperman provides a tantalizing glimpse into the world of Berdan’s sharpshooters during the American Civil War.

Civil War re-enactors who are members of the Western Sharpshooters, 66th Illinois Company D prepare to line up in formation to fire their rifles during a drill at Buckley Homestead near Lowell in ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry ordered the family name of a Confederate leader restored to a base under his father's name.