The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865, but its true cause remains the subject of debate. Beyond battles and politics, the central issue was slavery and its expansion into new ...

Confederate myths are confronted as John Dunphy pushes back with facts ...

The Civil War helped define America and names like Gettysburg, Antietam, Lincoln, Robert E Lee, and Ulysses S Grant are ...

The Sand Creek Massacre comes to mind in reading about U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, a decorated combat veteran who declared that ...

President calls Crow and other members of Congress traitors. But an Army captain who refused orders in 1864 today is remembered with reverence for his defiance.

When the ‘official’ Thanksgiving Day rolls around in November, a lot of emphasis is usually placed on Lincoln’s Thanksgiving ...

The Sand Creek Massacre comes to mind in reading about U.S. Rep. Jason Crow's call for members of the U.S. military to refuse illegal orders.

At Sand Creek, on Nov. 29, 1864, Captain Silas Soule and Lieutenant Joseph Cramer refused to allow their men to participate ...

Looming large is the legality of Trump’s orders to kill those on boats in the Caribbean who may — or may not — be carrying narcotics. Trump, said French, “has put the military in an impossible ...

On January 7, 1861, Virginia Gov. John Letcher proposed that delegates from every state gather in Washington, D.C. for a ...