He posed that question to former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, who served in Iraq and had in recent years built a second career in ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty.

A local Civil War museum and shop got a surprising visit from a well-known comedian. On Tuesday, the Union Drummer Boy posted ...

DETROIT – One of the earliest monuments constructed to honor Civil War veterans in the country is in Detroit. In 1865, the year the war ended, Michigan Gov. Austin Blair began collecting funds to ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

The Scranton chapter of UNICO National donated $350 to the GAR Memorial Association’s fundraiser to return the Civil War sword of a North Scranton (then the town of Providence) native and Civil ...

When General Wharton’s great-great granddaughter, Sue Bell, and her parents were selling the home in the 1980s and rummaging ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

Bruton Parish Church officials recently hung a new plaque explaining an existing Civil War-era tablet that honors dead Confederate soldiers from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg.

Between 1954 and 1962, French-controlled Algeria was mired in a brutal civil war. In 1966, Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo released "The Battle of Algiers," detailing Algerian militant Ali La ...