(USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama by Xanthus Smith)I&...  ...“Alabama claims.” During the American Civil War , British companies built several warships for the Confederacy, such as the C.S.S Alabama. T...  ...e commerce raiders damaged US shipping during the war . The U...

(Image via the US Navy Art Collection)During the A...  ...ia the US Navy Art Collection)During the American Civil War , Confederate commandos and agents launched small...  ...e Champlain. By 1863, there was only one American warship on the Great Lakes: the 14-gun steamboat USS Mich...

[http://youtu.be/AQnDAh66H98] (YouTube link)At the...  ...coln's Gettysburg Address. They play songs of the Civil War era while making impossibly complicated formation...

[http://youtu.be/_Yzi79zpqQA] (YouTube link)Abraham Lincoln delivered what is now known as the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. Th...

(Photo: Rodolfo Gonzalez/AP/Austin American-States...  ...k or two underground. That was the length of time civil defense officials estimated — at least for...

In its past, Hart Island in New York City has been...  ...its past, Hart Island in New York City has been a Civil War prison camp, a mental asylum, a workhouse for the...

Black is such a powerful word because it conveys d...  ...ave been evolutionarily advantageous because they warn predators to avoid the spider. For example, if a...  ...and people during the chequered history of human civilization. Wars were fought, kingdoms were built and demolished,...

In the time of Halloween, the serious and not-so-s...  ...dbirth; children died of disease; and men died in war . Even Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the venerable pr...  ...-year-old son died of a fever in 1862; during the Civil War , spiritualism gained adherents in droves, people...  ...connect with loved ones wh...

The following article is republished from Uncle Jo...  ...is first term, the nation was on the verge of the Civil War . In the midst of trying to reunify the divided co...  ...he economy of the South had been decimated by the war ; hatred and animosity were rampant. Lincoln's pla...  ...Winston Churchill, a freq...

Image: Universal Pictures via Collider...  ...use it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself ... Science fiction is central to...  ...@HardSciFiMovies) October 8, 2013 Image: Warner Bros. Remote imaging detects a black, perf...  ...ance sends a lone soldier back in...