It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American waters. The power brokers in Washington panicked. Everyone except Navy Secretary ...

A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia! President ...

To reclaim the Mississippi River during the Civil War, the Lincoln Administration ... Known as the city-class ironclads, they were the St. Louis, Cairo, Carondelet, Cincinnati, Louisville, Mound ...

For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the ... they barely evade an ironclad warship firing at ...

Nearly 14 years of brutal civil war, which killed more than 500,000 people and displaced millions, has left an estimated 324,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance scattered across Syria, Pires said.

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, writes Rodney Dieser.

In a trembling voice she explains how her home in Omdurman had been raided during Sudan's violent civil war, which erupted ... made for,'" she recalls. "Even kids here are mean to us, they treat ...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees called for “rapid, unhindered and uninterrupted humanitarian access” to the strip to relieve the suffering caused by war. Israel will release 735 ...

The US president has already declared a national emergency at the border, as he begins his crackdown on immigration.

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious world of the hit TV show Severance? The Battle of Cold Harbor was a ...