Demonstrations and programs throughout the day will highlight military and civilian life during the Civil War, with a special ...

This week, the show travels back to the American Revolution to explore the science of the weapons used by all sides.

Tom Watson tells the story of Bishop Peter Mews wounded many times in the First English Civil War and, 40 years later, at the Battle of Sedgemoor.

However, new weapons like the pike and longbow changed the battlefield. At Morgarten (1315), Swiss foot soldiers defeated ...

Basing House was a thorn in Parliament’s side. Commanding the road to London (held by the parliamentarians) the mansion hampered the city’s communications and its prosperous wool trade. It was ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...

It wasn’t until after the Civil War that the 15th Amendment gave voting ... Flora probably shivered from the cold in a wool coat, musket in hand. He “crouched in the lee of a pile of shingles ...

HERE. AS WMUR'S IMANI FLEMING EXPLAINS.. THIS WAS THE TOWN'S áBIGGESTá FIRE.. IN YEARS. <NATS> A SEA OF SMOKE... <IT WAS CLOUDING EVERYTHING, THIS WHOLE AREA> <WE HAD TO COVER OUR MOUTHS ...

From the infancy of the American fire service ... the early 16th century—all the way through the civil war, more than 250 years later. Muskets were readily available and sufficiently reliable ...

Delegations from Russia and the US are expected to resume talks on ending the war on Monday in Saudi Arabia ... to be civilian infrastructure on fire and huge plumes of smoke rising over the ...