Around twenty thousand Native Americans fought in...  ...nd twenty thousand Native Americans fought in the Civil War . But on which side? Did they fight for the Union...  ...otives to people in previous centuries. After the Civil War , Native Americans fought in all US wars , an...

In 1865, plantation owner Colonel P. H. Anderson w...  ...nel P. H. Anderson was short on workers after the Civil War . He wrote a letter to the formerly-enslaved Jordo...

The new movie Rustin opens in theaters tomorrow. I...  ...opens in theaters tomorrow. It's the story of how Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin organized the March...  ...in the 1930s, advocated for pacifism during World War II, and introduced Martin Luther King, Jr. to the...  ...soned for resisting the draft,...

Some houses are said to be haunted because they look scary, some because they are abandoned, and some just because people like a good story. A fine brick home with lavish woodwork and a wrought iron fence could have been...

Weird Universe introduces us to the works of John...  ...merican professional soldier during and after the Civil War . He was a prolific writer throughout his career a...  ...peoples that he encountered in the United States' wars against them.In 1891, he compiled his own observa...

Around 620,000 soldiers died in the US Civil War , but that toll would have been higher if surgeons...  ...rom wounds to malaria to stomach aches. After the war , many of these men went home addicted to painkill...  ...been taking opioids. Read about opiate use in the Civil War...

Books become famously influential in different way...  ...indeed books that fueled America's Revolutionary War , feminism, civil rights, environmental regulations, the Communist...

We often read about teenagers who lied about their...  ...their ages in order to serve their country during war . But this story is about an old man who lied abou...  ...t older people with specialized knowledge for the war effort, but they are rarely put on the front line...  ...tizen who enlisted in the Union...

The 2002 movie Gangs of New York was a strange fil...  ...ddressed what was going on in the city during the Civil War . Weird History looks at the Five Points neighborh...

In 1861, 25-year-old Samuel Clemens answered the c...  ...author’s two-week stint as a soldier in the Civil War largely amounted to him larping as a Confederate....