When the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment formed in 1863, 82 recruits from County joined the nation's first all-Black ...

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War. Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

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

The New Ulm Battery, one of the city’s oldest institutes, has a new home. For 44 years, the battery’s headquarters were ...

Beneath the flap of canvas tents and the slow crackle of smoldering campfires, Civil War history came to life last weekend during the annual Battle of Sacramento reenactment. Nearly 100 reenactors ...

Land Raiders have been rolling over the competition. Today we examine their venerable history. With the dark clouds of the ...

That includes the iconic “Battle of Cedar Creek,” painted by Vermonter and Civil War veteran Julian Scott. Scott is known for his realistic artwork showing the psychological anguish and ...

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IN DES MOINES. GLENDALE CEMETERY. THE REMAINS OF 15 UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS RESTED IN UNMARKED GRAVES, UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHARES THE EFFORTS TO ...

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 ...

Brion McClanahan dismantles the so-called "righteous cause" narrative that shapes modern American history and foreign policy, tracing its roots from Sumner and Lincoln to the war in Iraq.

How did the state grow from Machiavelli to World War I? Hunt Tooley reveals how artillery, arms dealers, and bankers turned war into profitable, prolonged carnage. Recorded at the Mises Institute in ...

It’s not the first time Sudan’s had a famine. It’s not the first time Sudan’s had a civil war in the last 10 years, 20 years, 30 years,” he said. “As bad as it is—and it’s never be ...