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Brian Maloney remembers taking family road trips to Gettysburg and Fort Sumter and other historical sites, but never realized ...
Founded in 1881, the Sons of Veterans were organized by Augustus Davis. Eventually to be called, the Sons of Union Veterans ...
Civil War veterans from Edwardsville Post 461 gathered for a historic 1912 portrait on the library steps.
There are some unique war memorials in New Hampshire -- each with an important story to tell. We start our journey off the ...
Here, for Memorial Day, are some titles worth checking out: ...
He is now an avid collector and local Civil War historian ... following in the footsteps of soldiers,” he said. “Most of the stuff I’ve found was days away from being covered with asphalt ...
As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising.
In her latest book ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ the sociologist analyzes what separates democracies from autocracies. She also ...
Here’s a thoughtful list of meaningful places where you can pay your respects to Black military personnel this Memorial Day ...
you can still see three of those pre-Civil War homes. The National Parks Service’s self-guided walking tour brochure explains much of its history. An actors portraying a Union Army soldier takes ...
During the Civil War, soldiers often relied on homemade or commercially ... Delaware River on Christmas Day in 1776 and the 9-mile walk to Trenton, ending with the first victory of the American ...
In 1936, as Spain descended into a bloody civil war, the left-wing Republican side ... They went illegally. They stowed away [on ships]," Samaras explains. Among the Australians who travelled ...