Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given ... pull historic documents from the National Archive along with family-tree records and eventually traced Sandy’s grave site to ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Most the soldiers were Swedish immigrants ... Stutelberg notes that many current congregants can trace their family back generations – to the Civil War solders and the founders of 1858 church.

Joining today's U.S. military requires a series of eye exams, blood and urine tests and the infamous naked duck walk. If you had all your limbs during the Civil War, the sky was (apparently ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom ... At the height of the Civil War, a soldier advocacy group displayed a sculpture made from the presidential follicles of Abraham Lincoln ...

The number of soldiers who died during the Civil War was equal to—perhaps even greater ... The goal was to re-bury the deceased in the family cemetery and to honor the dead with a proper funeral ...

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... men went to war made up for their absence. Kids helped run family farms and businesses. They planted and harvested crops, chopped ...