A new set of stamps honors five pivotal American Revolution battlefields across the Northeast as the US prepares for its ...

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (top) and Chickamauga, Georgia (bottom) were the sites of two Civil War battles. Eliot Dudik In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman ...

The American Civil War was the first major conflict ... from snapping even the most graphic of post-battle images to illustrate the horrors of war. Several of the images in this gallery are ...

Upon the Fields of Battle, a volume in the LSU series “Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War”, is a valuable read for serious students of the war, and perhaps for anyone ...

The Battle for Spain, by Anthony Beevor, is a reworking of The Spanish Civil War, a book he first published in 1982. Since then, a great deal of new material about the war has become available, some ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...