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

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

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

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The following month, British forces attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. After twenty-five hours of bombarding the fort ...

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