While sharpshooting as a military practice goes back to the days of the American Revolution, during the Civil War, Hiram ...

Before the Civil War, most Americans saw guns as primarily tools for hunting and pest control, not something to keep households safe.

1861 - Breech loaded guns in common use. 1861-1865 - American Civil War. Both breech and muzzle loaded guns used. 1862 - The Gatling Gun is invented. 1869 - Center-fire cartridge introduced.

Retropolis Black men weren’t allowed guns in the early Civil War. He fired one anyway. Lewis A. Bell, who fired a gun at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in Virginia in 1861, is believed to be the ...

The guns of the Civil War were a major part of the evolution in American warfare, they set the tone and technology for future generations of weapons systems, many of which we still use today.

The firearm as a totemlike symbol of personal identity emerged from the psychological insecurities of former enslavers after the Civil War ...

The guns of the Civil War were a major part of the evolution in American warfare, they set the tone and technology for future generations of weapons systems, many of which we still use today.

Alex Garland's dystopian thriller Civil War depicts a current-day, less-than-united states of America in which journalists are scrambling to get to the White House before rebel factions do.

Overview of the Lesson - Landmines and the American Civil War Author Ken Rutherford provides an overview of his lecture about the early history of landmines, which were used for the first time on ...

President Donald Trump’s political and economic agenda dividing the nation is raising new concerns about a possible “civil war” among America’s “preppers” and has gun sellers readying ...

It seems dire predictions of political violence are now commonly issued both by the country’s extreme fringes as well as from the mainstream, write Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware.

Men from the 71st Illinois posing with Henry rifles. Troops on both sides of the American Civil War prized the Henry rifle.