A Chicago-based gang of tabletop wargamers are digging actual earthworks to accommodate their colossally ambitious custom ...

A suspected pro-Kremlin stooge is facing war crimes charges in the UK after filming pigs eating dead Ukrainian soldiers and allegedly mistreating a fellow British soldier. Former civil servant Graham ...

CYNTHIANA, Ky. (WKYT) - More than 100 Civil War-era letters written by a Union Army soldier to his wife have been digitized and made available online through a new website created by the ...

DALLAS — A Back Mountain soldier killed during the Civil War finally has a memorial marker recognizing his death after more than 160 years. Descendants of Cpl. Nathan Allen will gather at 1 p.m.

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

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A rendering of Pennsylvania soldiers voting by artist William Waud was published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 29, 1864. (Library of Congress) “We cannot have free government without elections,” President ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Today marks Civil War Day in Kansas City, where visitors can explore the historical significance of the John Wornall House and Museum, a site central to the Battle of Westport. The ...

Six Lebanese soldiers were killed on Saturday in a powerful explosion at a Hezbollah weapons depot in Wadi Zibqin, near the Israeli border. The Lebanese army said troops were dismantling munitions ...

Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes), create camaraderie among troops yearning for places, people, and things they've left behind. These tunes live long ...

Two trains collided near Lafayette, on Oct. 31, 1864, killing 30 people, mostly soldiers. Many of the soldiers killed were returning home from the Civil War, some after being released from Libby ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago to tell the last ...