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Many in Syria want to enshrine remnants of their recent history, not only to remember it, but as a cautionary tale.
The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.
Join the History Seekers as we uncover 150-year-old Civil War relics from the historic Siege ... a 20 lb Parrott artillery shell, and several other rare battlefield artifacts buried since 1863.
One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold.
The Libertyville Historical Society is racing to save the rapidly deteriorating 165-year-old banner by fundraising $30,000 to ...
Pp. xxiv, 396. Illus., tables, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $50.00. ISBN: 0807178004 A Detail Look at Field Artillery in the Civil War Earl Hess wanted to know what made Civil War field artillery so ...
Vermont’s Statehouse is known as a living museum, filled with historic and storied pieces of art. That includes the iconic “Battle of Cedar Creek,” painted by Vermonter and Civil War veteran ...
Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to ...
Daniel Hough, a Tipperary man, was the first man killed in the US Civil War, where he served with ... in Battery D of the 1st United States Artillery Regiment. After serving out his enlistment ...
War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...
The SAF enjoyed air superiority at the onset thanks to its air force and, having long used Iranian surveillance drones as artillery support ... country’s recent civil war, according to Wim ...