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

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

was the largest and most important battle of the Civil War. The Army of the Potomac, now led by Gen. Meade, was able to repel the Confederate advance. This Union victory was a turning point in the ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

A Syrian army soldier places a Syrian national ... In the words of Axios‘ news director, the Syrian Civil War “changed everything,” leading to the climax of the Global War on Terror, the ...

After seizing control of Russia from the Provisional Government, the Bolsheviks had to safeguard their fragile grip on the reins of power. Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although both sides sometimes pretended that it was not. The southern states feared that the new Republican Party, led by President Abraham ...

Their leaders ... military commanders They controlled huge areas of Russia They had the Bolsheviks surrounded They had the active support of foreign countries, which intervened in the Civil War ...