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

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 Canadian War Museum's newest exhibition takes visitors back before Confederation to learn about the impact the American ...

This tense election season is also peak season at a popular landmark of the American past: the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Nearly one million people visit the Civil War ...

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

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that is officially about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it has come to signal the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of travel, as well as ...

In spite of its early ineptitude, the Russian Army might ultimately be able to replicate Lincoln’s winning strategy, concentrating offensives in time to score a breakthrough into the Ukrainian ...

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

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

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 ...