Ever wonder how Civil War artillery shells actually detonated? This video breaks down the main fuse types time fuses, impact/percussion fuses, and the transitional designs in between. Using real ...

I’m working upstream toward an old river ford hoping for Civil War history and at first it’s just heat, rapids, and junk iron ...

Fort Hawkins in Macon played a key role in Georgia’s early American history and continues to educate visitors as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary.

When Americans are asked to think about Civil War uniforms, two colors typically come immediately to mind: blue and gray. But ...

Nichter herself becomes the most moving part of the book: this woman who carried this weight quietly for so long, then found real strength in opening up about it. The sections after the release aren’t ...

Many of these men, once bound in slavery, were also being documented for the first time, impacting generations to come.

A paramilitary group in Sudan’s civil war “acted with genocidal intent” in a monthslong siege of El Fasher, according to ...

When Palestinians die, the Arab street erupts – but only when the killer is Jewish. When the killer is Arab, the street goes quiet, the flags stay folded, the hashtags never trend, and the dead are ...

Fort Defiance Civil War Park and Interpretive Center invite the public to step back in time to 1862, during a special living history event.

By creating a judicial civil war, the Libyan political class has ensured that no national election can ever be legally certified. Lawfare has replaced warfare as the primary tool of institutional ...

The final artillery shot of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s vanquished army boomed from the top of a small hill in the village of Appomattox Court House. In the early afternoon of April 9, 1865, ...

Apple Valley station closed after apparent Civil War cannonballs found; bomb squad removed them and no one was hurt.