Portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with Slave Rehung at West Point The reinstallation marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to reverse the work of a congressionally mandated...
Toppled Confederate Statue in DC to Be Replaced in Line with Trump's Executive Order The National Park Service announced that the statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate brigadier general and a revered figure...
Ulysses S. Grant Picked a Confederate Slave Owner to Take Down the KKK Amos T. Akerman was a curious case to become President Ulysses S. Grant's attorney general, as depicted in Guy Gugliotta’s...
New Graphic Novel Spotlights Robert Smalls, Who Escaped Slavery on a Stolen Confederate Ship Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress...
The Former Slave Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Achieve His Family's Freedom One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went...
An Alternate-History Channel on Reddit Is Gaming Out a Shockingly Realistic Second US Civil War Alternate history is fiction that imagines what would be different if some specific event was changed. A new alt-history...
The First Black Medal of Honor Action Is Brought to Life in the Latest AUSA Graphic Novel William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow...
National Park Service Restores Original Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad Webpage The issue comes amid sweeping government changes to comply with President Donald Trump's campaign against so-called diversity...
Taps: How a Medal of Honor Recipient Gave America its Most Famous Military Bugle Call Ever The central role that Daniel Butterfield played in taps was largely unknown until the late 19th century, only coming to light...
Civil War Nurses, USS Constitution Commander Among Female Veterans Removed in Pentagon DEI Sweep Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Hegseth Wants 'Male Standard' for Combat Roles. Many Female Veterans Say That's Already the Case Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his...
The Forgotten Military Vehicles of ‘M*A*S*H’ Between all the martini-fueled hijinx and medical drama, “M*A*S*H” featured some pretty special military vehicles.
Hegseth's Decision on Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage in Native American Communities Native American communities that had long wanted the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded...
Airman Confronts and Shoots Armed Neighbor on Deadly Rampage, Iowa Officials Say Harrison Friar, a senior airman, was with his wife and children at their home in Glenwood on the evening of Aug. 6 when they...