Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.

In the words of Axios‘ news director, the Syrian Civil War “changed everything ... (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File) Crucially, ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

Scouring online ancestry and family tree records, Bray has unearthed part of Wiegel’s life story. Born in 1846, Wiegel served in the Civil War with the 189th Ohio volunteer infantry before ...

North Carolina state Rep. John Blust, a Greensboro Republican who served as an enlisted soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division ...

This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The Soldier's Body Recovered in Yard is believed to be the last confederate ...

pious and concerned only with home and family,” DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” ...

In 1936, civil war erupted in Spain between the elected ... Unlike the American military at the time, the force mixed white and Black volunteers in the same units. Among the African-American ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Young Rohingya men are being forcibly conscripted by both Myanmar’s military and rebel groups, as the ongoing civil war devastates ... Fatima and her family fled to ...

A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of ... resistance to the military government has grown and the country is now in the midst of a brutal civil war. The court-ordered auction ...