CIVIL FRONT: Ladies in Green. 3 minute read. TIME. August 26, 1940 12:00 AM GMT-4. S ix young women in green trousers, green jackets, green overseas caps marched into the White House one morning ...

First Ladies and Civil Rights. From the earliest slave-holding first ladies to later champions of civil rights, there is a complicated history of American first ladies and race relations.

How have Germany following defeat in WWII and the U.S. south after losing the Civil War taught succeeding generations and ...

She was generally missing from much of the Civil War literature. James McPherson mentioned her not at all in his sweeping nearly 900-page history of the conflict, "Battle Cry of Freedom." ...

Biden calls for Sudan peace talks as famine threatens millions 05:28. Johannesburg — Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, one side in a civil war that's torn the African nation apart for more than a ...

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors participate in ceremonies during funeral services Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, for the burial of the cremated remains of Byron R ...

Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say. Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862.

Civil War Reenactors Aren’t Just Play-Acting. They Expect a War. A visit to a battle reenactment in rural Virginia revealed some surprising views about U.S. politics—and broad pessimism about ...

The search for remains of formerly enslaved Black Union soldiers brutally murdered by angry Southerners as the Civil War was ending. Learn about Camp Nelson, KY, the military base where these ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Adam Gopnik reviews “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War,” by Michael Vorenberg, and “1861: The Lost Peace,” by Jay Winik.