He later went to work for Matthew Brady's studio in New York City and eventually became one of the 22 photographers Brady sent into the field to record the Civil War.

July 13th, 1863, New York City: The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city becomes a battleground for Irish immigrants ...

PROVIDENCE – Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. was buried without a gravestone at North Burial Ground in Providence but is finally being recognized and honored more than 130 years later.

From a Civil War Sex Scandal to the Depths of Pearl Harbor: New Documentary Brings Astonishing Wartime Letters to Life In 'Behind the Lines', narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the ...

The blaze, discovered Sunday afternoon, forced evacuations for the Fort Stanton area and campgrounds. N.M. 220 was also closed near the fort.

A rain delay played an essential role in The Battle of Jackson, which was fought 162 years ago today in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.

When Lebanon's civil war erupted 50 years ago this month, its national museum became a flashpoint of its capital's deadly frontline, with militants barricaded among ancient sarcophagi and sniping ...

July 13th, 1863, New York City: The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city becomes a battleground for Irish immigrants ...

Not only had the war been unimaginably horrific, but also—as the reenactors reminded me over and over—its consequences were still shaping contemporary America and its broken politics.

And the Civil War sacrifices of York’s fighting men on the field and townspeople back home would have become a point of pride as it is in Hanover, Wrightsville, Carlisle and other Northern towns.

Alex Garland’s movie ‘Civil War’ is not only about a divided America, it’s dividing American moviegoers. Here’s what you need to know about the new A24 film.