The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black ...

At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black Civil War soldiers buried in Butler Cemetery.

The private cemetery is the final resting place for eight Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. "They were men who were colored troops who couldn't be buried in White ...

Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ... Confederate soldiers bound for Gettysburg captured Lyles and her children. Two years later, with the Civil War at an end and slavery on the ...

The make-believe soldiers are all bearing ... participation trophies in Civil War battles — though it’s hard to imagine it’s kosher for history buffs. A Union reenactor in a hoop skirt ...

One Union soldier called these actions “disgraceful to American history.” Image Drawing extensively on Willie ... particularly when Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, in Savannah ...

Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...