The history of Buffalo Soldiers — all-Black military regiments — in Utah is rich but often buried. A new driving trail, ...

Archaeologists in Virginia unearthed four skeletons, including one with a bullet in the spine, and three amputated legs.

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War. Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War. The Civil War is ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868 to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers ... In 1971, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act and established that Memorial Day ...

Beneath the flap of canvas tents and the slow crackle of smoldering campfires, Civil War history came to life last weekend during the annual Battle of Sacramento reenactment. Nearly 100 reenactors ...

Amidst the chaos of 1860s warfare, one Confederate unit marched into battle dressed like Revolutionary War ghosts. This was no accident. ‘I am Ashamed’: West Point Professor Resigns in ...

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IN DES MOINES. GLENDALE CEMETERY. THE REMAINS OF 15 UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS RESTED IN UNMARKED GRAVES, UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHARES THE EFFORTS TO ...

War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...