Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field. Read more about the Civil War at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history ...

I spend part of Memorial Day at an annual ceremony in Alexandria honoring city residents killed or missing in Vietnam. I get ...

Years before the U.S. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady took his famous photos of the Antietam battlefield, the camera of Britain's Roger Fenton captured scenes at Battle of Alma in Crimea in 1854.

The origins of Memorial Day lie in remembering those lost during the Civil War. Established as a national holiday in 1971, ...

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of President John Tyler, has died at 96, closing an extraordinary family ...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

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One of the things I was most disappointed in about Garland’s 2024 release, Civil War, was the lack of real tension. I just never felt any real stakes in most of the movie. Maybe it’s because ...

The siege will take place during the 47th annual Ohio Civil War Show 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Nearly 5,000 people travel to Mansfield from across the United States to ...

At the same time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deeply unpopular, scandal- plagued extremist right-wing government—one that features an avowed racist and homophobe and a longtime ...