While most remember the land battles of the American Civil War, the conflict at sea played a crucial role. In this animated ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Step into the past with us as we metal detect across a 160-year-old Civil War site—one beep at a time. This journey through time takes us to long-forgotten battlegrounds, where each find pulls us ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments later this month over what would be the first religious public charter school in the United States, in a case that finds Republican Oklahoma ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Saturday marked 250 years since the first shots of the Revolutionary War. To kick off the commemoration, the Hawaii 250th Commission, and the U.S. Army held a ceremony ...

The battles are considered by historians to be the first of the American Revolutionary War. Saturday's rededication featured multiple speakers, including Lexington Select Board Chair Doug Lucente.

U.S.A.I.D. The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined ... Forces from the area. A map of Khartoum and environs ...

British Regulars fire on New England colonial militia, also known as a Minutemen, during a reenactment celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and start of the American ...

Starting with Saturday’s anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the country will look back to its war of independence and ask where its legacy stands today. Just after dawn on the ...