The Civil War Battle Where a West Point Professor Defeated His Confederate Student The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on...
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...
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.
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration from Sending National Guard Troops to Oregon A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration...
As Hegseth Orders Changes to the Pentagon Watchdog, Advocates Say It Will Silence Complaints Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s...
![](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/1time%20AUSA%20medal%20of%20honor%20comic%201200.jpg?itok=ePa905ar ""Medal of Honor: William Carney" from the Association of the U.S. Army.")
