It took 139 years to understand what caused the mysterious “Angel’s Glow” at the Battle of Shiloh.

In May 1863, soldiers rounded up McLure and two dozen other disloyal civilians and dispatched them downriver to the ...

German immigrants, Yankee newcomers and quick action by Union leaders narrowly keep St. Louis and Missouri out of the ...

The Soldiers' and Sailors Monument at Syracuse's Clinton Square was dedicated on June 21, 1910 in front of 40,000 people.

Cpl. John Mackie’s gun crew was cut down around him in a fight against Confederate troops. He cleared the casualties and kept ...

Two books about the 1856 caning of a senator show how words can incite violence—and also help defeat it.

Some of the fiercest battles took place in South Carolina, but its part in the fight for independence is often overlooked.

The Grand Army of the Republic, the fraternal organization for soldiers of the Civil War, was formed in 1866. Thousands of ...

Since the opening US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, the war in Iran has reshaped the Middle East in real time, with brinkmanship over the Strait of Hormuz and a haphazard final ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. As an annual economic conference was set to begin, ...

The open letter offering face-to-face peace talks to end the war in Ukraine echoed through the corridors of this week's "Russian Davos" forum - and beyond. Reuters, the news and media division of ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...