The recent US military assault on Iran looks like past desperate bids to reclaim fading imperial glory. Alfred McCoy This ...
T he death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the Iran war generated hope that the regime change ...
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America’s youngest Civil War soldier

Hidden in a small family cemetery in the Georgia woods is the grave of Benjamin Williams, believed to be the youngest soldier of the American Civil War. Born in 1854, he reportedly joined the ...
Manitowoc County Fenians backed Irish independence via Fenian circles, 1869 grand balls and Irish-American activism from 1848 ...
The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, ...
In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.
Sarah Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to join the 2nd Michigan Infantry's Company F, known as the Flint Union Greys.
The Burt-Stark Mansion is known for its historical significance as Confederate president Jefferson Davis' last council of war ...
As the conflict entered its second week, Zakaria said the most dangerous element of the war lies in the differing objectives of the two main actors conducting it - Israel and the United States ...
As America approaches 250 years of independence, reflect on the lessons from World War II and the importance of civic duty.
There are military artifacts with stories behind them across the state, but few are as famous as the two Civil War-era cannons that, until 2023, when they were "temporarily" relocated, could be seen ...
Why, in an era when music's biggest stars are more outspoken than ever, does it feel like we're still waiting for the ...