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"I think and I hope my parents will be proud of me as someone who kept going, who was kind to everyone, and who never forgot ...
Supervising engineer Haris Charismiadis stands next to human remains believed to belong to prisoners executed during or after Greece's 1946-49 Civil War in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Saturday ...
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The short, unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania earlier this year.
A previously unknown and unpublished Civil War-era letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the Raab Collection — and is being sold for $85,000. Here are details.
Samuel Holmes Doten of Plymouth, Mass., was born June 5, 1812, so after the Civil War ended in 1865, he would joke that he “served in the infantry in the war of that date.” William Kendall ...
“The Battle of Atlanta,” one of the world’s largest paintings, settled into its new home after two days of moving and months of preparation.
Portraits of War: The camera became the critical tool in helping us understand the ravages of conflict.
During the Civil War, advances in technology rendered the conflict bloody and lopsided, as the industrial North churned out weapons, canned food, and uniforms for its far-flung armies and used its ...
There’s a town in Missouri named after him and he helped Union armies defeat Confederate forces throughout the Civil War even though he never was a soldier. But E.L. Wentz seems to be a man ...
Bob Whisonant is a Civil War buff with a peculiar way of looking at the Civil War. If you ask him to talk about, say, the Battle of Antietam, he might begin, “Well, it all started 500 million ...