Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Americans are asked to think about Civil War uniforms, two colors typically come immediately to mind: blue and gray. But at a ...

Veterans pose by Civil War Trail Marker honoring the 135th U.S Army Colored Infantry regiment. Amy Bauer, a historian with the 135th USCT Research Team, said recognizing the infantry troop is ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! During a tour of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial at the National Gallery of Art, Senior Curator of Photographs Sarah Greenough explained why and how ...

When President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fight the rebellious Confederate states in 1861, it took little more than a week for the "First Defenders" to arrive in Washington. Many ...

A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion Jared Miller poses as his ancestor Richard Oliver, a ...

Nine-year-old Neikoye Flowers (foreground), photographed in 2023 wearing in a Civil War uniform like the one worn by his ancestor, David Miles Moore, Jr. (background),160 years ago. Illustration by ...

Check out Rafael Eledge's appraisal of a Civil War colonel uniform group, ca. 1863, in Vintage Denver 2024, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available ...

WASHINGTON — The commission charged with eliminating commemoration of the Confederacy in the U.S. military recommended Monday that the Army ban the flying of Confederate campaign streamers on unit ...