He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

While turbocharging has only been around for roughly 50 years, the supercharger has been seen in cars for over double that ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

It “defined us as what we are, and it opened us up to what we became.” The American Civil War set the United States on the path to becoming a global force, but another clash, long forgotten ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

A documentary special provides an overview of the U.S. military across the centuries, mostly focusing on the American ...

(Charles Lawrence/The Valley Breeze via AP) In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an ...

This volume narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War. The military encounters between Union and Confederate soldiers and ...

As the rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump nears, the report's authors claimed an American civil war is 'an improbably ... the urgency of developing new technology to deal with the threat ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

From the earliest settlers and the Revolutionary War, American soldiers have been a transformative force shaping history.

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the ...