Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, ...

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress called for 10 companies of expert riflemen to be organized and sent to Boston to assist the militia facing ...

When the Soviet Union allowed a few Soviet Jews to emigrate after the 1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East, expectations of freer Jewish emigration to Israel became a real possibility. These dreams ...

Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, “Report Submitted to Secretary of War Stanton, May 26, 1863,” in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ser. 3, vol.