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.

Made up of soldiers from Wayne and Ontario counties, the 111th served with distinction in the Civil War, including the ...

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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, ...

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

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Credit - Getty Images ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

The war on drugs has sent millions of people to prison for low-level offenses, and seriously eroded our civil liberties and civil rights while costing taxpayers billions of dollars a year, with ...

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