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

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The Medal of Honor is the only American military decoration worn around the neck rather than pinned to the uniform. Each of ...

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

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

America went to war against Spain to free Cuba from Spanish domination. But the war provided the United States an opportunity ...

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

Struggling as an independent country, the Republic of Texas sought to become part of the United States. Although many in ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

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

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

To fight Mexico, the United States had to mobilize, equip, and transport a large force, including both army and navy ...