The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

American Revolution provided world of Enlightenment chance to see if philosophy, politics game they had been engaged in could ...

Tom Watson tells the story of Bishop Peter Mews wounded many times in the First English Civil War and, 40 years later, at the ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...