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

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

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

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

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

324,000 aircraft 88,000 tanks 8,800 warships 5,600 merchant ships 224,000 pieces of artillery 2,382,000 trucks 79,000 landing ...

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

America went to war against Spain to free Cuba from Spanish domination. But the war provided the United States an opportunity ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

At Cold Harbor, Grant launched a furious assault against what he thought was a tired and beaten enemy—and suffered a bloody ...

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

For years the colonies had flourished in a state of “salutary neglect.” Britain had been content to leave the day-to-day ...