[Sir Keyboard Commando] just emerged from his machine shop to show off the 1/6th scale model of a Civil War mortar which he recently finished fabricating. It started with some bar stock that ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...

Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

The March meeting of the Rufus Barringer Civil War Round Table will be held on Thursday, April 17, at 7 p.m., at the Civic Club, on the corner of Pennsylvania ...

The most punishing conflict ever fought on American soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering its fifth year. Nothing in America’s experience in the past or since had been so brutal ...

I n four years of civil war, Myanmar’s ruling junta has suffered a slew of humiliating military reversals. But this year it ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

Although his elegantly rendered smouldering bridges and mortar-darkened skies look striking ... democracy feels borderline irresponsible. Civil War is clearly in dialogue with the horrors of ...

Suddenly, the Syrian city of nearly 100,000 inhabitants - known for its Roman amphitheater - was filled with vehicles full of armed men, mortar detonations, a helicopter firing rockets in the ...

The second Sudanese civil war lasted from 1983 to 2005 and ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese voted in favor of the independence ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and discussions with authors ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...