It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... led by white officer Robert Gould Shaw. Their heroism in combat put to rest worries over the willingness of black soldiers to fight.

The Kankakee Valley Historical Society will share that and other stories of the Northwest Indiana's contribution to the Civil War this weekend. “The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana” will take ...

This groundbreaking series brings four of the most famous engagements of the Civil War to life like never before. Unflinching, uncompromising and graphic, the images and stories presented here ...

A matter challenging for even so great a captain as Napoleon, became even more so when one adds to the existing mix the factors that shaped Civil War combat, improved weaponry and its necessary ...