From April 6-7, 1862, Americans slaughtered one another near a small log church i...  ...re casualties those two days than in all previous wars combined. It was a horrible shock to the divided...  ...there were worse to come.Giles Hellum, an African American employee of the Unio...

The United States is observing Martin Luther King,...  ...ay. Dr. King is best known for his work to in the Civil Rights Movement and his assassination in 1968. Wh...  ...nation in 1968. When asked for a King quote, most Americans will respond with the most famous line from his "...  ...t to say, about poverty,...

In the words of Vice President John Nace Garner, t...  ...er, the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss." That may be true, buit the characters who'...  ...cy, Arthur didn't hesitate to sign the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. Much to the chagrin of Conkl...  ...uch to the chagrin of Conklin...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ..., she also worked as a spy and a nurse during the Civil War for the federal government, which rewarded her wi...  ...of the main women's group and instead resorted to civil disobedience to push a constitutional amendment...

150 years ago today, the Army of the Potamac and the Army of Northern Virginia were locked in a bloody slaughter near Fredericksburg, Virginia. On the third day of the five day engagement, a Union assault on Confederate...

Hugh Tudor, born in 1847, served in the US Army fr...  ...d in the US Army from 1864 through the end of the war . In his seventies, he married and had two daughte...  ...mber of United Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War and one of ten surviving daughters of Union vete...

The following is an article from Uncle John's 24-K...  ...t against the United States' involvement in World War I, which most Americans supported. With vaudeville, Keller's ambitious go...  ...should be released?A: Certainly. They opposed the war on the grounds that it was co...

Is it November 10th already? Tomorrow is Veterans...  ...ze this who have served their country in times of war , a date chosen because the first " war to end all wars " ended on November 11, 1918. There may be some pu...  ...lding the Wall A Video of the Last Veteran of the *...

The stylin' Captain Samuel J. Richardson of the Second Texas Cavalry wore a standard issue hat and shirt. But his pants and his holsters were made of jaguar skin!Link -via Retronaut...

[youtube 5Td4xzS6r2E](Video Link)On August 2, 1956...  ...105 and 109. He was the last Union veteran of the American Civil War and probably the last veteran from either side of...