Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

As we approach the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and our soldiers returning we should also remember the men and women at ...

Greensburg contributed a lot of people to the Civil War. My ancestor was in that war.’ It kind of jogs their memory, brings it back home to them and they can be proud of their community.” ...

Dempsey Daniel Butler, an abolitionist, ardent supporter of the Underground Railroad and New Jersey businessman, set aside a plot of land at the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden.

Young Rohingya men are being forcibly conscripted by both Myanmar’s military and rebel groups, as the ongoing civil war ...

pious and concerned only with home and family,” DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” ...

Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men ...