Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

While the Monitor and Merrimack are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had another ship in its flotilla that carried hi...

The rifled artillery used during the Civil War created the need for a new and more reliable type of artillery fuze to light powder charges. This...

The USS Carondelet had a revolutionary ship design and was the most active of all the Union's Civil War river ironclads. From Fort Henry through...

Captain George N. Bliss of the First Rhode Island Cavalry survived some 27 actions during the Civil War. Midway through the war, he served nine ...

Women's bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women's rights worldwide. This study examines the domai...

Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British c...

Often neglected by historians, actions in Missouri and Kansas had an important influence on the course of the Civil War, with profound effects f...

In the summer of 1862, two great armies met outside of Richmond in a series of battles that would determine the course of the Civil War. The Uni...

After more than three years of grim fighting, General Ulysses Grant had a plan to end the Civil War--laying siege to Petersburg, Virginia, thus ...

In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshotand illegalforays into Mexico, Cuba, and other ...

If Americans were asked to select the best known and most celebrated outlaws, from among the many bad men produced by the Wild West, chances are Fr...

In June 1866, an 800-man contingent of the Irish Fenian Brotherhood invaded Canada from Buffalo, New York, in an effort to free Ireland from Bri...

Defeat was looming for the South--as the Civil War continued, paths to possible victory were fast disappearing. Dr. Luke Pryor Blackburn, a Conf...

The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate a ...

Union General Philip Kearny began his career as a lieutenant with the 1st U.S. Dragoons. He studied cavalry tactics in France and fought with th...