Michaela DePrince, an orphan from war-torn Sierra Leone who danced to global fame as a ballerina, performing with the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam ... Adopted by an American couple when she was ...
This year will highlight the Battle of Spotsylvania, known as the “Crossroads of the Civil War,” which took place in 1864.
A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...
Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer has returned to the tiny village that ...
Hood County, Texas, has been shaken by a civil war between traditional Republicans and a far-right faction of the party ...
This volume narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War. The military encounters between Union and Confederate soldiers and ...
MESCH, Netherlands -- Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer returned Thursday to the tiny village that he and others in the 30th Infantry Division ...
Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...
The Civil War had begun ... black officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during the war. African American soldiers were also given substandard supplies and rations.