For Barbara Beirne, being a photographer meant building a relationship of trust and collaboration with her subjects and using ...

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The soldiers were young and inexperienced, most in their teens or early twenties. In the North, they were farmers and factory ...

The Medal of Honor is the only American military decoration worn around the neck rather than pinned to the uniform. Each of ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

In the opening struggles for control of Europe, the United States used economic aid to support the democracies of Western ...

In 1943, the U.S. Army and Navy jointly began a two-pronged attack through the central Pacific and across New Guinea to the ...

324,000 aircraft 88,000 tanks 8,800 warships 5,600 merchant ships 224,000 pieces of artillery 2,382,000 trucks 79,000 landing ...

Coveting what remained of the Indian lands in the Southeast and lower South, the United States forced tribes to cede their ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

At Cold Harbor, Grant launched a furious assault against what he thought was a tired and beaten enemy—and suffered a bloody ...