Discover shocking and obscure war facts that history class never taught you! From Soviet soldiers clapping endlessly for fear of punishment to the horrors and bizarre occurrences of WWII and beyond, ...

From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...

KEY WEST, Fla. (Amazing America) — Those looking for a mix of Civil War history and a sunny Florida beach need to go no further than Fort Zachary Taylor, a waterfront landmark tucked at the southern ...

CAMDEN — Davie Beard remembers the grand opening of the Historic Camden War Site in November 1970. He was 14 but still remembers what it was like to see the small city in Kershaw County invest in ...

Rhode Island Colonists engaged in acts of resistance against the British a decade before the American Revolution officially began. Key events included firing on British ships, burning the HMS Gaspee, ...

To live in New York's Lower Hudson Valley and in New England is to wonder: What if that craggy stone wall or historic building dates in one form or another to the Revolutionary War? What if, beneath ...

A stage adaptation of the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich’s “The Unwomanly Face of War” gives Soviet women credit for their complex roles in World War II. By Laura Cappelle Reviewing from ...

The Civil War isn’t what it used to be. Instead of the romantic version, a “good war” of courage and glory, that emerged in the conflict’s immediate aftermath, or the post-civil-rights-era emphasis on ...

From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly’s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know! In honor of the United States’ 250th birthday, Andalusia Historic House, ...