Civil War

Doubleday's name resonates today widely as the supposed inventor of baseball. While that contention has been largely debunked...

In the late 1850s, the U.S. Army experimented with using camels as pack animals in the American Southwest.

The 101st Airborne Division has probably one of the most recognizable insignias in the U.S. military.

To celebrate the end of a conflict that killed more than 600,000 troops, let's remember just how the war finally ended.

The Confederate army under Joseph E. Johnston was the largest army to surrender to the Union during the Civil War.

Famed inventor and businessman George Westinghouse served in both the Union Army and Navy during the Civil War.

Ann Reeves Jarvis and Julia Ward Howe, sick of sons and fathers dying, wanted to remind people of the true cost of war.

Sure, there's nothing technically "great" about living a life of crime, but if that life became the inspiration for one of...

The congressionally mandated Naming Commission, a committee formed to examine all Confederate references across the military...

Fort Pickett will be redesignated Fort Barfoot, honoring Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient with...