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

Three Civil War veterans and descendants of former President Thomas Jefferson were honored Saturday afternoon.

Cashier was not the only woman to hide her identity to join one of the Civil War's belligerents. Historians estimate as few as 400 or as many as 1,000 women hid their gender to fight the war as men.

The remains of several more Civil War veterans were sent to Maine, Rhode Island and other places where family connections were found. "Would have been lost to history" Among them was Byron Johnson.

The New England Civil War Museum has been added to the Connecticut Freedom Trail following two years of reshaping the museum's main exhibit. The museum, located on the second floor of Town Hall, ...

Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...

In October 2024, a photo circulated online allegedly showing "a 116-year-old U.S. Civil War veteran on his deathbed with a cigar in his teeth." The caption of one X post said the picture was taken ...

The remains of several more Civil War veterans were sent to Maine, ... Born in Pawtucket in 1844, he enlisted at 18 and served as a hospital steward with the Union Army.

Civil War reenactors fold an American flag near an urn, ... Top enlisted Marine takes a swipe at Audie Murphy’s uniform regs. Senate passes Trump’s major policy bill with $150 billion for the DOD.

African Americans who enlisted in the Union Army lived in barracks inside Fort McPherson and possibly in the army ... Civil War Diary (1862-1865) of Bishop William Henry Elder, Bishop of ...

Many who enlisted in the Union Army found themselves poorly provisioned, poorly dressed and using antiquated weapons. ... Some 200,000 men left their units during the Civil War, ...