American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

The International Context, a new digital archive that demonstrates the far-reaching involvement of European nations in the ...

Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series with a new focus on the American Civil War. This series follows their previous coverage of the American Revolution, now ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

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

In the American Civil war there were units on both sides which had uniforms heavily influenced by their individual heritage, fashion crazes or special requirements.

But it is a very real place and the site of a major historical event—a disastrous Civil War battle still remembered as one of the most significant routs in American history. Is there any insight ...

African Americans in Civil War Medicine” traveling exhibition will be held at the Luzerne County Community College Library ...

In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have fought alongside George Washington.

Military bases should not be named "for traitors to our country but instead honor American heroes like Novosel," she wrote previously.

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl reference to "40 acres and a mule" draws lines of similarity to the 40-hour workweek that many ...