For Barbara Beirne, being a photographer meant building a relationship of trust and collaboration with her subjects and using ...

Struggling as an independent country, the Republic of Texas sought to become part of the United States. Although many in ...

To fight Mexico, the United States had to mobilize, equip, and transport a large force, including both army and navy ...

America went to war against Spain to free Cuba from Spanish domination. But the war provided the United States an opportunity ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

By the spring of 1944, a year of Allied bombing had weakened Germany’s war machine. The Allies finally were ready to strike ...

Americans went to war to win their independence from Great Britain. Just weeks after the outbreak of fighting at Lexington ...

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

In the opening struggles for control of Europe, the United States used economic aid to support the democracies of Western ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

But it also wanted, in the words of President Woodrow Wilson, to “make the world safe for democracy.” The United States ...

The soldiers were young and inexperienced, most in their teens or early twenties. In the North, they were farmers and factory ...