For Barbara Beirne, being a photographer meant building a relationship of trust and collaboration with her subjects and using ...

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The soldiers were young and inexperienced, most in their teens or early twenties. In the North, they were farmers and factory ...

Struggling as an independent country, the Republic of Texas sought to become part of the United States. Although many in ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

In the opening struggles for control of Europe, the United States used economic aid to support the democracies of Western ...

The Medal of Honor is the only American military decoration worn around the neck rather than pinned to the uniform. Each of ...

To fight Mexico, the United States had to mobilize, equip, and transport a large force, including both army and navy ...

Coveting what remained of the Indian lands in the Southeast and lower South, the United States forced tribes to cede their ...

But it also wanted, in the words of President Woodrow Wilson, to “make the world safe for democracy.” The United States ...

By the spring of 1944, a year of Allied bombing had weakened Germany’s war machine. The Allies finally were ready to strike ...

On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union ...