A volunteer pauses as he helps put up a field of flags near the War Memorial Thursday, May 23, 2024, in Milwaukee. The Memorial Day tribute will feature 27,316 American flags representing ...

The US Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a defining moment in this nation’s history settling the question of slavery once and for all. It was by far the bloodiest conflict that the United ...

With the Civil War’s history and framing becoming a recurrent theme in the days before crucial presidential primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, we thought we’d clarify the causes and run-up ...

Indeed, 12 military men in the American Revolution were drawing pensions in the Civil War, and the photos of six appeared in E.B. Hillard’s book “The Last Men of the Revolution” in 1864.