Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

One woman, of the 3,500+ Medal of Honor recipients, was a woman and the story behind the honor is an intriguing one. Read on ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the ...

It was issued in 1865 to members of the Union army during the US Civil War (National Archives) Another result was the First Geneva Convention in 1864, which was ratified by 57 states and was the ...

The American Civil War broke out while Barton was living in ... cheerful hearts all along the line traversed, money, food and clothing being almost lavished at all points visited, and not a ...

Humanitarian aid has taken a severe blow as the Trump administration has frozen foreign aid and is attempting to close down the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Hughes was one of the nearly 4 million men, women and children enslaved during the American Civil War. At the time of ... The department provided food, shelter, clothing, medical aid, education ...

President Trump says the U.S. has spent $350 billion on the war in Ukraine—a figure that is at odds with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s tally, as well as U.S. government agencies and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Delegates sing during a planned signing ceremony of the Sudan Founding Charter aimed at establishing a unity ...