I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

But when the Civil War began in 1861, members of the Guard left to join both the Union and the Confederacy. The Lexington Rifles had already organized with other Fayette County companies to form ...

Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend.

At first glance, there was nothing unusual about Pvt. Lyons Wakeman. The service record in the National Archives is similar ...

Vermont’s Statehouse is known as a living museum, filled with historic and storied pieces of art. That includes the iconic “Battle of Cedar Creek,” painted by Vermonter and Civil War veteran ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday that Syria may be weeks away from plunging into another civil war or collapsing altogether. Rubio, who met with top Syrian officials last week ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition 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 ...

Fifty guns were fired in the salute." The following day, April 15, President Abraham Lincoln called up 75,000 federal militia members and the Civil War began.

Alain Bellefeuille spent his second day on the stand in his own defence denying prosecution accusations that he hadn't fallen asleep at all the night he shot at three police officers, killing one of ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national ...