For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the ...
An October conference examined the legacy of the Siege of Petersburg, a grim episode in America’s “great single tragic event.” ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Approximately 155 Soldiers from the Illinois Army National Guard’s Pontiac-based A Troop, 2nd Squadron, ...
The Fighting Sixth,” an Army unit with over 160 years of history, permanently ceased activity Wednesday at Fort Riley.
The Civil War’s final months were a desperate struggle as the Confederacy crumbled from within. Grant’s siege tightened around Petersburg while Sherman carved a brutal path through the Carolinas, ...
A Kansas-based military unit with more than 160 years of history serving the nation is officially deactivated. Fort Riley ...
Sailors Creek Battlefield Historical State Park invites visitors to Cavalry Month at the Visitor Center on Saturdays and Sundays during January.
There was almost a perceptible tension that filled the air as Burlington's hard winter of 1861 broke with the first hints of spring.
The leading historian of conflict says the atrocities in Ukraine are rooted in a uniquely brutal mindset that can be traced back centuries ...
Grimes Davis rode through the dark like a man convinced Providence had tapped him on the shoulder, turning a doomed garrison’s last breath into one of the boldest jailbreaks the war ever saw.
A bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, which was toppled by demonstrators in 2020 following George Floyd’s death, was reinstalled this past weekend in Washington, D.C. The statue, which ...
A Virginia school board violated students’ First Amendment rights when it restored the name of a Confederate general to its high school, a federal judge decided this week. District Judge Michael F.