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

This year marks the 70th anniversary of a Memorial Day tradition in which residents pay tribute to the “Stranger.” ...

The Civil War is often remembered through faded photographs and written accounts, making it feel distant and hard to fully grasp. When those images are brought to life in color, the past takes a new ...

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Discipline during the American Civil War could be shockingly harsh, even by the standards of the 1861 to 1865 conflict.

In June 1866, just over a year after the Civil War ended, young Jewish men in Richmond, Virginia, removed their coats and set to work among the graves of their fallen comrades. Some were “frail of ...

When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced earlier this month that he would return a Confederate memorial to Arlington National Cemetery, he blamed “woke lemmings” for it having been taken down.

During my junior year at West Point in 2017, I attended a ceremony honoring the namesake of the school's newest barracks: Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. This was the first building at West Point named ...