Topic: Union Army

Tweet . Irish American actor Martin Sheen commented in an interview published in Irish America that he loves his Irish heritage in part because the...
The intertwined histories of the Civil War and the Bronx are now playing out in the Museum of Bronx History at the Valentine-Varian House in...
Read more: Irish American Civil War hero honored in Montana. . The first casualty of the American Civil War which began 150 years ago this week was...

Civil War Heroes

Civil War Heroes -. . Today marks the anniversary of the civil war, a bloody time in American history that resulted in the beginnings of some of...
IdeaFeed Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . What's the Big Idea?. . Where do truly innovative ideas come from? While the poet might argue for divine...

The Meaning of a Credit Score

I do not suppose you know what your credit score means do you? Do you really? I think you might want to take another moment to think good and hard...

When Johnny comes, shaken, home

Wartorn," a compelling examination of how combat can cripple the lives of those who survive physically intact, will trouble some viewers. It...
As with all wars, the Civil War had a great impact on its soldiers and their families. As Alexis Girardin Brown explains in the Michigan State University Press, many women stepped out of their sheltered existence voluntarily entering the public sphere and ...

Civil War battles: Franklin

On November 30, 1864, General John B. Hood faced a critical decision which would hasten the end of the Civil War. The Union Army was in the overall command of General George Thomas, headquartered in Nashville. Schofield had his men dig defensive ...
Frederick Douglass ,the great abolitionist, dynamic orator and prolific writer of the 1850's-1860's was a powerful voice in Antebellum America. But Frederick Douglass did not forget his humble beginnings, he did not forget 'where he came from' as the expression ...