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

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

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

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had referred to Fort Benning and Fort Bragg by their original, Confederate-inspired names.

“Especially in Western Pennsylvania, because when you say ‘Civil War,’ you think Gettysburg. You think down south, Tennessee, states and battles that happened far away. “When you form a ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels enter Bukavu, escalating conflict and causing displacement in eastern Congo amid ceasefire ...

My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

When the Civil War started in the spring of 1861, Tubman put aside her fight against slavery to conduct combat as a soldier and spy for the United States Army. She offered her services to a powerful ...

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan said what happened in Wad Madani was a heinous and "unacceptable" crime. He urged Sudan's government to protect South Sudanese citizens trapped there, and to ...

Cecil Bassett Moore was a Black American activist, lawyer and politician during the civil rights movement who ... during World War II. He was trained at an all-Black training facility at the ...