Have you ever wondered why you hear a bugle playing taps every evening on Army bases around the world? Playing taps is a tradition going back to the Civil War when the tune was first heard at ...

Just how that sounded may be imagined Saturday night when Villanueva presents the 150 t h anniversary performance on a bugle from the Civil War era. Dozens of other buglers stationed around ...

"First Hand," an exhibition of more than 140 original Civil War-era drawings on view at Reed College's Cooley Gallery, overflows with historical insight. Not only do the images, drawn from the ...