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

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

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released ...

Called A Chart of the Cruises of the USS Yorktown, the mural consists of a world map showing all the places ... still had a bomb attached to it. During World War II, the Navy used the aircraft ...

But there are good people that can resuscitate it. But they don’t want it to be me,” he said during a floor speech Thursday. As the mad dash to fill his shoes as leader of the state Senate ...

By Matt White Published Apr 22, 2025 5:28 PM EDT The first recorded use of pressure-activated land mines was by the Confederate army in 1862 during the Civil War. Union soldiers thought they were ...

Do you recall the US military strategies in Vietnam or the post-9/11 "War on Terror"? In both cases ... and Raqqa (2017), displaced tens of thousands and deepened regional instability. During the ...