Despite heavy artillery support, the regiment suffered 2,678 casualties while advancing just 6,000 yards during 18 continuous ...

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) is best-known as a novelist, but he wrote a great deal of poetry, especially in his later years. And perhaps not well known, he wrote the longest poem in American ...

Nearly 100 years after the Civil War began, its last surviving veteran, Albert Woolson, passed away in Duluth, at age 106.

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If you're looking to enjoy the great outdoors but don't know what you want to do, consider this Tennessee state park which ...

Zach Nunamaker, of Momence, gave a presentation on Iroquois County soldiers who served in the two largest Illinois infantries ...

Hidden in the New Mexico desert, the ruins of Fort Craig overlook a battlefield most Americans have never heard of. In 1862, nearly 6,000 soldiers clashed at Valverde Ford in the largest land battle ...

Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights the causes, the major battles, and the outcome of the American Civil War — ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...