You might think of the Civil War as long ago; however, this West Virginia tavern has stood the test of time, even becoming a ...

There are military artifacts with stories behind them across the state, but few are as famous as the two Civil War-era cannons that, until 2023, when they were "temporarily" relocated, could be seen ...

A book by Sunbury native John P. Deeben features an anthology of soldier letters written specifically for publication in two local Northumberland County newspapers. Volumes One and Two of “Well and ...

Annie’s public efforts made the invisible labor of so many women visible on a massive scale during a critical time in Iowa and U.S. history.

The U.S. Army would enter the 19th century equipped with a smoothbore flintlock musket that differed little from the designs of the past, and it would exit the century with a modern, bolt-action, ...

This is the moment when total war meets the fog of war. Not in tiny steps but in one great leap, the United States has triggered, and itself soon will experience, a frightful period of total war that ...

Inspired by the anti-Vietnam War protest of the late 1960s, Motown Records label released the number-one hit song sung by Edwin Starr. The song, one of the most popular of the counter-culture era, ...

In 1861, during the American Civil War when Hilton Head Island in South Carolina fell to Union troops, hundreds of enslaved African Americans escaped from their former enslavers to Union-held ...

The world that eventually emerges from that fog always is profoundly changed, with the international balance of power altered, sometimes with old alliances frayed and new ones created, and with new ...

The diverse war aims the U.S. President has set out amount to a multiple-choice proposition for opponents of his war effort ...

Happy birthday, Florida! Sorry we missed the big day March 3 and that we can't light 181 candles for you. Burn bans and drought conditions make that unsafe. Florida became the 27th state to join the ...

Historically, it would require a substantial escalation of the U.S. military commitment in the week-old Iran war ...