This week marks 161 years since Union and Confederate troops met in The Battle of Fort Myers.It was one of the 10,000 places where the Civil War was fought, to paraphrase the opening narration in Ken ...

Instead of hearts and roses, portraits of Soviet leaders were handed out in a display that critics say highlights Moscow’s growing push to revive Soviet imagery in territories under its control.

By 1864, more than 12,000 surgeons had served in the Union army throughout the Civil War. Just 14 of them were Black. Historian Jill Newmark's 2023 book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of ...

In the early months of the Civil War, Republican Sen. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts proved invaluable to President Abraham ...

The former CIA director tells EL PAÍS he hopes that Trump’s threats against Greenland ‘are just a negotiation strategy’ ...

Military talent, tactics and tools from the days of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass and Wade Hampton III were in ...

During Hitler’s last great gamble in the winter of 1944, elite German commandos led by Otto Skorzeny infiltrated American lines in captured uniforms and vehicles, spreading chaos, sabotaging ...

When Americans are asked to think about Civil War uniforms, two colors typically come immediately to mind: blue and gray. But ...

The National Abolition Hall of Fame in Peterboro continues to act as a beacon of hope to those impacted by the civil rights movement. Peterboro was a stop on the Underground ...

To celebrate Black History Month, Harrisburg is privileged to meet one of its adopted sons, Ephraim Slaughter, a Civil War Union Army veteran, community leader, and philanthropist who was born into ...

At least 21 people drowned when a boat sank in the Nile River in northern Sudan, according to the local state government and eyewitnesses interviewed by AFP. River Nile State said Thursday that 21 ...