A cannon which dates back prior to the Civil War was restored over the winter and recently returned to Legion Park in ...

Harrington & Richardson chose to celebrate its 100th anniversary—along with the company’s heritage of building firearms for ...

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

The year: 1861. The problem ... And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon ...

Editor's note: On this day April 12, 1861, the Confederate Army opened fire at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, launching the American Civil War. The War raged for four years and caused the deaths ...

The United States military has produced some incredible machine guns throughout history, but worldwide, the machine gun has ...

In contrast, auto manufacturers, factory workers, and the general American public support ... the Morrill Tariff of 1861 to fund Union efforts in the Civil War and protect northern industries ...

A New York Times reporter and photographer were the first Western journalists to visit central Khartoum since the civil war broke ... have picked up guns to fight in the war; they were assembled ...

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet ... Lindsley/Library of Congress via AP) After the Civil War started in 1861, Tubman continued her fight for freedom.

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... and editor who worked in Washington in the lead up to the Civil War. During his four decades in the nation’s capital, he crossed ...

Many were veterans of the American Revolution and War of 1812 ... The Williams’ family story continues with a Civil War account of John’s service in his obituary on Jan. 20, 1912, in The ...