The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is widely regarded as Russia’s greatest poet. While the Pushkin family was of ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, ...

A Civil War solider used hardtack in a crafty way.

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...