(YouTube Link)The Civil War was bad, but imagine how much worse it would have...

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...a Western, set in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War . Elvis' co-stars were veteran actors Richard Egan...

Before chocolate candy was developed, cocoa was al...  ...staple, cacao was a manly beverage, reserved for warriors .Cacao was cultivated and consumed by the Olmecs a...  ...s, but is most famously associated with the Aztec civilization . Montezuma the II, who kept a huge storehouse of...  ...te a day, decreed t...

Today, January 1, 2013, is the 150th anniversary...  ...the Union when they reached federal lines.As the war progressed, the Emancipation Proclamation became...  ...re, as it changed the perceived philosophy of the Civil War

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 veter...  ...iving daughters of Union v...

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 vaudevill...  ...should be released?A: Certainly. They opposed the war on the grounds that it was commercial war . Now everyon...

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...  ...Wall A Video of the Last Veteran of the American *s...

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...imes and tried to enlist in the Union Army in the Civil War . He was unsuccessful and was sent back home every...

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...