On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical ...

Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta by Kara Walker, 2005, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated ...

The 101st Airborne Division has probably one of the most recognizable insignias in the U.S. military. Aside from its participation in some of the most famed battles of the 20th century, the 101st's ...

A statue of Confederate Civil War general Robert E. Lee was at the center of last weekend's deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. The conflict has reignited intense debate over the fate of ...

You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...

On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia, some 700 1 black soldiers in the 4th and 6th regiments of the Union Army walked directly into enemy fire. The ultimate target ...

A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion Jared Miller poses as his ancestor Richard Oliver, a ...