From 1776 to today, armed conflicts have been defining moments in U.S.history. Americans have fought and died for the nation and its ideals in wars that have reshaped culture and changed lives.

One of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War was fought in downtown Savannah, commemorated each year on its ...

Reenactors and presenters brought visitors back to the early 1860s for Century Village Museum’s 41st annual Civil War Living History Weekend. Union and Confederate soldiers encamped and mingled with ...

By the side of the road in a small town in Southern Maryland is an easy-to-miss historical marker. But the story of Camp Stanton is not to be missed.

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times, is the author of “Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History.” A ...

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As President Donald Trump looks at ordering US Navy ships to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, for naval analysts and historians, there’s a distinct feeling of “been there, done that.” ...

ABOUT twenty years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes in a letter to his friend Sir Frederick Pollock had something to say about Charles A. Beard’s Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. Beard, said ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. On this list, I have compiled 20 books that everyone should ...

Costner on horseback as Hayes Ellison in Chapter 1 of Horizon Staff Writer Giddy up: Horizon: An American Saga, out in theaters on June 28, is a new Western set in the Civil War-era by Kevin Costner, ...