1 of 7 | A bust of Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman can be seen between the vaults at Grant's Tomb in New York City.

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...

The parallels between our situation and that of seventeenth-century England abound—and so do the contrasts and ironies.

Nearly 40,000 Kansas Citians packed the banks of the Missouri River to celebrate the completion of the first railroad bridge ...

but in recent years we have gone Category Five with forecasts of a Civil War II. Since history is guilty of repeating itself, ...

It is a mission that members at the Legion Post 77 feel must be accomplished for three civil war veterans who may have been ...

With the re-election of Donald Trump, the sex-trafficking allegations against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and the Gisele Pelicot case, ...

"It felt like we were doing right for someone who otherwise would have been lost to history." For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in ...

“Can you imagine a 14-year-old today going off to West Point? Or a highly decorated Civil War veteran — and he was deaf.” ...

The artifact also could help illuminate the broader economic ties with the U.S. military as well as lesser known stories ...