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Every Memorial Day, Americans pause to remember the service members who never returned home from war. Here are the seven bloodiest wars in American history ...

A pivotal change occurred in 1971 when Congress moved Memorial Day from a fixed May 30 to the last Monday of May, creating a ...

From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...

The holiday's origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members, Union and ...

1861: The Lost Peace. By Jay Winik. Grand Central Publishing. 304 pages. $35. More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

THIS year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War - a conflict which claimed over 625,000 lives between 1861 and 1865. One of the lesser known facts about the war is that ...