While the Civil War was never fought in California, the state nevertheless played a major role in generating pro-Union ...

The quiet charm of Boalsburg has deep roots in American Civil War history. Tucked in the shadow of Mount Nittany, this small ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

The National Civil War Museum ... for both the Union and the Confederacy. Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union supporter in Virginia, led one of the most successful spy rings of the war.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that's supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, ...

Demand, meanwhile, had quadrupled since the fighting began, fueled by a commitment to provide each Union soldier ... family to the West African colony at the age of 6. By the outbreak of the Civil ...

When one side of the Spanish Civil War asked the world for help, a small band of Australian men and women answered the call.

That friendship has helped lead Jakubick to recently complete his own battlefield mission of photographing every monument on ...

According to a fellow soldier ... His family were undertakers in [Sydney's] Newtown. He did the books at Luna Park," Samaras says. After the end of the Spanish Civil War, Bull went to England.

obelisk storage photo 4 A fragment of the toppled Soldiers ... ‘Complicated process’ Completed in 1868, largely in honor of Civil War Union soldiers, the obelisk has long been controversial ...

Daniel Hough, a Tipperary man, was the first man killed in the US Civil War, where he served with the Union Army at Fort ... near New York City in 1861. His family petitioned the US government ...

Most anyone knows that Harriet Tubman served as spy, soldier, nurse and North Star navigator during the Civil War.