The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

The base, known as Fort Liberty since 2023, originally was named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. The Army says it now ...

Whether by shuffling agency personnel, creating new agencies, or limiting their capacity for oversight, a common tactic among ...

A cigar maker and a successful boxer in the 1800s, André Cailloux also was the first Black officer killed in action during ...

Did you know that Confederate Missouri leaders actually moved to Shreveport and then Marshall, Texas, to establish the ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

Is it an honor or a cynical end run? When it comes to the former — and apparently future — Fort Bragg, that’s in the eye of the beholder.

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

U.S. Military bases were named after Confederate soldiers to appease white supremacists; it was right to rename them.

The Civil War is well known for great battles, famous generals and large casualties. But there was a lesser known side of the war, the guerrilla war where bands of civilians and soldiers joined forces ...