Syria's fragile transition hit by deadly sectarian violence
Syria's fragile transition from decades of Assad family brutal rule has been greatly shaken with an outburst of sectarian retribution and killings, posing a serious challenge to the new leadership led ...
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Forged by fire, the reinvention and modernization of the U.S. Army in the Civil War.
For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...
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Opinion: Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, Gov. Mills chose the wrong hill to die on
articles and film accounts of the Civil War and Gettysburg. Chamberlain commanded Union troops at the Appomattox surrender ...
The Republican Herald6d
Pottsville soldier carried Abraham Lincoln from Ford’s Theatre after he was shot on April 14, 1865
On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for ...
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The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed
Explore the history of presidential pardons for insurrectionists, including those of Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, and their consequences.
Daughters of the Union seek to preserve marker as mystery surrounds another
San Pedro Park marker honors first president of Union women’s group; readers asked to help track down a plaque dedicated to ...