For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations that generate combat power.1 Institutional strategy, the mechanism by which ...

Many of these men, once bound in slavery, were also being documented for the first time, impacting generations to come.

FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS — Ken Spurgeon, assistant professor of history at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, presented the Friends of Frontier Army Museum speaker series lecture Feb. 26, 2025, ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States of America, and so far were able to fight the Union Army.

Window covering at Arlington Historical Museum honors Sgt. Nimrod Burke of the 23rd US Colored Infantry (staff photo by Scott McCaffrey) New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for ...

As bedraggled Union troops retreated to their camp along the James River in Virginia in early July 1862, they endured a march that stretched more than 12 miles. Eager to lighten their load in harsh ...

As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for ...