How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

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The acclaimed filmmaker’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the political history of the Revolution remains strangely understated. The acclaimed filmmaker’s latest PBS series is ...

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

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Discover how Kansas State University became the first Morrill Act land-grant college during the Civil War, transforming Blue Mount Central ...

The article Union Soldier's 1861 Springfield Rifle Finds A Home At New England Civil War Museum appeared first on Vernon Patch. While LSU reportedly prepares a massive $98 million contract offer for ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

The Greenfield Fish & Game Club is hosting its first ever musket target shooting event on Saturday, August 2, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The club is located at 6683 Stage Road, Utica NY. To sign up, ...

There are many like it — 18, in fact. A new scrolling feature posted on the Marine Corps website walks through a vital string of identity to the Corps: a history of every rifle model that any Marine ...