For Barbara Beirne, being a photographer meant building a relationship of trust and collaboration with her subjects and using ...

Americans went to war to win their independence from Great Britain. Just weeks after the outbreak of fighting at Lexington ...

In the opening struggles for control of Europe, the United States used economic aid to support the democracies of Western ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

The following month, British forces attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. After twenty-five hours of bombarding the fort ...

For years the colonies had flourished in a state of “salutary neglect.” Britain had been content to leave the day-to-day ...

Washington sought to impose strict military protocols and daily orders on life in camp, but was constantly frustrated by all ...

On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union ...

In March 1945, U.S. Army Air Forces intensified their strategic bombing campaign over Japan. Instead of flying high-altitude ...

As the Nazi blitzkrieg, or lightning war, raced across Europe, German forces committed unnumbered atrocities against the men, ...

When the British attacked Long Island in August, Washington’s troops faced heavy volleys of musket fire, fusillades of ...

The soldiers were young and inexperienced, most in their teens or early twenties. In the North, they were farmers and factory ...