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The volunteers, named after a real historical unit, taught students about weapons, uniforms, equipment, and jobs during the ...
Officials say Civil War artifacts are recovered regularly around Manassas due to its location of several battles.
Join the 2nd Minnesota Battery of Light Artillery for a living history event in Durand. Learn about Civil War soldiers and ...
While exploring this historic ground, we uncovered a Civil War-era sword, an artillery shell fired by the 2nd Vermont Battery, and several other fascinating relics. Watch as we bring forgotten ...
In 2023 it witnessed horrific massacres, along ethnic lines, which the US and others say amounted to genocide. RSF fighters and allied Arab militia allegedly targeted people from non-Arab ethnic ...
The Department of History's Edda Fields-Black has been named a recipient of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for her research on Harriet Tubman.
Since the introduction of gunpowder to battlefields in the Middle Ages, firearms have been a deciding factor in battles for ...
It's peaceful now, in an idyllic Bainbridge Island location with spectacular views overlooking the water, but Fort Ward was once humming with military activity.
Trailblazing war photographer Johanna-Maria Fritz has documented the conflicts in Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Sudan. In an NZZ ...
She was dead when she was carried away," says Hafiza quietly, as she describes how her mother was killed in a city under siege in Darfur, during Sudan's civil war, which began exactly two years ago.
Rhode Island units included eight infantry regiments, three cavalry regiments and 14 artillery elements ... Representatives from Battery B, a Civil War militia unit, presented a memorial wreath.