Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

The American Civil War (1861 ... Manassas remains a monument to early war lessons, where soldiers on both sides confronted the harsh realities of combat. At Fort Sumter, perched in Charleston Harbor, ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

Grant accepted the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. While skirmishes between Union and Confederate soldiers would continue, the surrender at Appomattox ...

Political interference in military leadership—especially dismissing generals and admirals based on ideological loyalty rather ...

The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields ... “And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865-1928.” In general, she writes ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew Johnson.

BANGKOK--Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar’s embattled ruling generals are ... amid a grinding civil war where the military ...