Major US Sanctions are a major barrier to reconstruction in Syria. With violence erupting on the country’s coast, US ...

On July 4, 1906, 15 years after his death, a massive statue of Devens, in Union uniform and astride a horse, was unveiled ...

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.

The life of Newark’s civil war-time mayor has again been commemorated — with his philanthropic work continued in the modern ...

Howard Lambert, the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state ...

For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

The battlefield extended with the introduction of field artillery from the 1880s. Even then, as Hess points out, among infantry possessing modern handheld weapons with longer range and higher firing ...