A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

The U.S. military has a budget of nearly $1.5 trillion and almost 800 facilities across the world, so why are there so many ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

It is Shakespeare’s longest work, clocking in at five acts and 30,557 words in its unabridged form. Those words focus largely ...

exactly four years to the day since Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard ordered his artillery to fire upon Fort Sumter — beginning the American Civil War — “the [final] business ...

Shiloh National Military Park, just a short drive away across the Tennessee border, combines historical significance with ...

Researchers have begun to examine the hidden or repressed queer identities within a movement that was overtly hostile to the ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...