Prepared with muskets and cannons, reenactors depicting Confederate and Union soldiers took to the battlefield on Saturday afternoon for the 27th rendition of the Battle of Sacramento reenactment.

Johnson officially designated Waterloo as the “Birthplace of Memorial Day.” Though some historians question that claim, the ...

In ‘The Next One Is for You,’ Ali Watkins shows how ordinary Americans enabled a conflict playing out thousands of miles away ...

Trump was already popular among many Syrians for his decision to launch military strikes against Assad during his first term ...

Journalist, author and historian Michael DeWitt Jr. explores the Fort Fremont Preserve and History Center in Beaufort County, ...

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have come and gone, and one thing is clear: The administration is engaged in ...

While touring historic Fort Sumter with the National Park Service, we spotted a Civil War artillery projectile still embedded ...

In April 1861, cannons opened fire on Fort Sumter—and the American Civil War began. This is the tense standoff that turned ...

While the Civil War was never fought in California, the state nevertheless played a major role in generating pro-Union ...

Since the introduction of gunpowder to battlefields in the Middle Ages, firearms have been a deciding factor in battles for ...

A bloody civil war and the tragic death by suicide of an ousted president served as inspiration for Isabel Allende's new novel, “My Name is Emilia del Valle.

With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, author and former editor of The American Conservative Robert W. Merry picks up where he left off ...