Below is an abbreviated history of everyday objects purchased during the Civil War Era. It was shared by Historian James Ayers, and taken from a 1939 Catskill Mountain News.

This week’s rare freezing of the Potomac reminds us of an earlier time when the river froze regularly and creative sailors ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Hegseth has made plain that his goal is to enhance the unbridled “lethality” of American military forces without handcuffs imposed by the law of armed conflict.

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

The discovery adds to the growing tally of mass graves unearthed since the fall of the Assad government in December. The ...

But such research was conducted while Assad was still in power, and it has only been several weeks since Assad fell. As a result, it’s unclear how many Syrians will decide to go back. After all, the ...

After a civil war in Syria erupted in 2011, Russia and Iran pooled efforts to shore up Bashar Assad’s government against Turkey-backed rebels seeking his ouster. In 2015, Russia launched a ...

Sometimes good movies need just a little bit of time to find their audience and that appears to be the case with “Number 24," Netflix’s stirring new war thriller. This Norwegian movie landed ...

One of the forms that war takes is one that happens intra-state, between people of a single country. Civil wars have ravaged many countries over the years. They have permanently changed the political ...

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