Bill Introduced To Honor 200,000 Black Union Soldiers With Gold Medal
There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...
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Ned Jilton II: A history of U.S. presidents and their military service
Feb. 17 is Presidents Day. A friend and I were talking about presidents when he said that so many of them were senators, representatives or governors and wondered if any ...
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How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
5 Medical Innovations from the Civil War
Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.
Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp
The Zamzam camp in North Darfur has been hit by intense artillery shelling since late last year, but this is the first time ...