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 ...

Germany is planning to pump billions into defense spending, but the need to better prepare goes well beyond the Bundeswehr.

They'd secured their visas, bought their plane tickets, sold their belongings. But a new Trump administration refugee ban ...

The historic Bushong Home on the grounds of the Virginia Museum of the Civil War is celebrating its bicentennial this year.

Although men were the primary landowners, women often oversaw the property rights of the land during the Civil War in ...

It underscores rising tensions in the oil-producing country plagued by political instability and violence since gaining ...

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

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

Nestled in the picturesque Virginia Piedmont region, about 70 miles southwest of Washington D.C., Culpeper is that rare small ...

On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for ...

After spending the last 21 months as Fort Liberty, the 160,000-acre military installation in Cumberland County, North Carolina, which is home to 10% of the entire United States Army, is now Fort Bragg ...