As time passes, history often becomes blurred. Stories are retold, facts are altered, and over generations, popular belief can drift far from the truth. Much like the old game of telephone, the ...

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Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Over a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of ...

The American Civil War left many lasting scars in the national psyche, which helps to explain why it has repeatedly proved to ...

In the years following the Civil War known as Reconstruction, newly-freed African American men could finally vote, and would be elected to represent ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. We’re one year in, and President Trump’s second term has already produced a parade of problematic historical ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and cardboard ...

A highly acclaimed 1989 war epic starring Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman will no longer be part of Netflix’s library ...

Wright, Isaac, and Digg Pridgen were three enslaved brothers who ran away from their captors and joined the Union Army in the ...