Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most ...

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Not coincidental is the fact that Trump also delivered the commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, ...

A court in El Salvador has sentenced three former military officers for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during ...

Vancouver’s former Army post provided a training ground for both Union and Confederate officers until the Civil War broke out in April 1861. At the start of the Civil War, some officers resigned and j ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.

Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg recently announced the discovery of four Confederate soldier skeletons, revealing a makeshift hospital from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg.