Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War. Ken Burns ... one o'clock, a giant artillery barrage, intended to soften up the Union defenses before ...

President Trump on Saturday said that he planned to withdraw his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

There’s some evidence that the migration fueled the civil war there, in which 80,000 people have died. “You had a lot of angry, unemployed men helping to trigger a revolution,” says Aaron ...

A part of the U.S. military since the Revolutionary War, artillery units work closely with the infantry in the field to engage enemies. While modern artillery units use several different weapons ...

The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory” (University of Wisconsin Press).