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Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, Florida, where it planned to join a convoy bound for the United Kingdom.

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

The Women Who Revolutionized Nursing During the American Civil War. 9 minute read. A nurse prepares to spoon-feed soldiers in the Union hospital at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, USA, circa 1861.

Blood Transfusions During the American Civil War The scene begins with Dr. Hale attempting to perform a blood transfusion—a seemingly complicated procedure and one that is generally associated ...

But what many people don't realize is that modern submarines have their origins in designs dating from the earliest years of the American Civil War. The world's first successful submarine attack ...

Indeed, 12 military men in the American Revolution were drawing pensions in the Civil War, and the photos of six appeared in E.B. Hillard’s book “The Last Men of the Revolution” in 1864.

Christened the USS Fanny and pressed into service, the plucky boat established a solid war record by transporting troops in August 1861 during the first amphibious operation of the Civil War.

The 36-foot boat carried U.S. troops during the invasion of Sicily and the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific, officials said. How it ended up in Lake Shasta is a mystery.

A previously unknown and unpublished Civil War-era letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the Raab Collection — and is being sold for $85,000. Here are details.

Chesterfield County provided a stage for several important events that happened during the Civil War, and the James River was a heavily-traveled thoroughfare during the conflict.