President Donald Trump, speaking about war as he attempts to decide whether or not to actively support Israel by bombing Iran, appeared to confuse America’s war for independence —the ...

The Declaration of Independence was America’s declaration it would no longer be ruled by England. It effectively became a declaration of war: the American Revolutionary War, or the American War of ...

CIVIL WAR TAUGHT HOW TO INFLUENCE NEWS MEDIA. IT NEARLY COST LINCOLN RE-ELECTION When I began, I thought of myself as knowledgeable about the era. I knew the bright lights, Lincoln, Grant ...

Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Nor did tariffs win the Indian wars as with the war between the states, nor did they start both wars over Indian reservations or plantation slavery, nor cause the NY draft riots of 1863 while the ...

The legacy of Black Civil War soldiers should never be forgotten. "Four regiments that were trained here at Camp William Penn were sent to Texas when the war came to an end," Paradis said.