On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in northern Virginia, marking the end of more than four years of hostilities that split the U.S. in two.

A timely and thoughtful exhibition, “The Art of Aggression” at the Moore Space refracts contemporary political art through a prism of global terrorism and conflict. Curators Jean Crutchfield and ...

It’s a fair bet that neither the name nor the facts of the military campaign whose story unfolds in this spellbinding film is likely to sound familiar to a television audience today. Smithsonian ...

The Pacific Ocean is also known as "The Peaceful Sea," and color footage of some of its remote American outposts taken in the late-1930s captures a world of fun and sun. But a wave of war will soon ...